into negative territory. cutting across on al-jazeera. play an important role ringback. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm barbara sara this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes now no veggies so any of us are safe leaders around the world launch a joint initiative to speed up work on a covert 19 vaccine that will be available for all. as the number of covert $900.00 deaths in the u.s. passes $50000.00 businesses start to reopen in the state of georgia plus. those

ask you to circulate the casting a very sarcastic question president trump defends himself after widespread condemnation of his suggestion of injecting disinfectant to treat coronavirus. and the holy month of ramadan begins with islams holiest sites largely empty amid the unprecedented restrictions. leaders from around the world have united to launch an initiative to accelerate work on drugs tests and a vaccine for covert 19 led by the w.h.o. the coordinated campaigning to ensure any new vaccines and treatments are available to all notable of by their absence our chinaware the outbreak began and the us

which has now recorded more than 50000 deaths this fight this the state of georgia has gone ahead with reopening some non-essential businesses there is better news from spain which has recorded its lowest number of deaths in more than a month and for the 1st time the number of spaniards who have recovered from covert 19 has exceeded the number of new cases all of this as the holy month of ramadan gets underway with coronavirus restrictions forcing muslims to change how they mark the event our diplomatic editor james bays begins our coverage this hour it's just the place you would have expected in previous times to have seen u.s. leadership a global crisis and world leaders coming together with a response the idea of this event to coordinate the search for a vaccine testing and treatments for covert 19 and to make sure all the widely

available the world needs this to use and it needs them for us. past experience has taught us that even when tools are available they have been not been equally available to all we cannot allow that to happen and what fear can be maintained requires the most massive public us effort in history data must be shared production capacity prepared resources may be wise communities in gauged and politics separate sites. i know we can do it i don't we can put people 1st and leaders spoke from all regions of the world technically bringing them all together was a bit of a challenge you know excellence you have can you hear me now oh yes yes we can hear you ok germany one of the members of the g. 7 a group of countries that were represented. we're now going to continue to mobilize

all countries of the g 7 and the g 20 for them to back this initiative i hope that we will be able to reconcile the sinister with china and the us because the fight against covert 19 as a common good for humanity this shouldn't be any divisions between countries we need to join forces to win this battle the fact that the world health organization was the host of the event explains why the u.s. didn't take part president trump cut all new funding to the w.h.o. because he claimed the global health body had not been tough enough on china the w.h.o. failed in this basic duty and must be held accountable is a spokes person for the u.s. mission to the u.n. in geneva where the w.h.o. is based told al jazeera they'll be no u.s. official participation we were informed of this event last week and we look forward to learning more about this initiative as soon as possible following this event the

next phase will be led by the european union in 10 days time they'll be trying to raise 8000000000 dollars to make sure that vaccines testing and treatment are available to everyone james 0 at the united nations. us president donald trump says he was being sarcastic when he raised the possibility of injecting people with disinfectant the fight coronavirus after signing the latest stimulus bill into law mr trump tried to explain comments he made on thursday which drove widespread criticism from the. doctors and the experts the president's suggestion also prompted leading disinfectant makers to issue strong warnings to people not to drink or inject their product our white house correspondent kimberly how could has more. the white house is certainly pushing back on some of the comments that have ensued following the president's statements of the president for his part

has endured backlash and ridicule for his suggestion that it would be possible to in jacked disinfectant or even ultraviolet rays as a form of curing coronavirus that i see the disinfectant. in a minute. way we can do something. injection. the white house is pushing back on reports of the president's comments in fact the white house is accusing the media of acting irresponsibly even taking the president out of context the president for his part is also defending his statements. i was asking the question of the gentleman who was there yesterday bill because when they say that something will last through 4 hours or 6 hours but if the sun is out where they use disinfectant it goes away in

less than a minute did you hear about this yesterday but i was asking the circuit has taken a very sarcastic question to the reporters in the room about disinfectant on the inside but it does kill it and it would kill it in the hands and that would make things much better as a result of the president's comments the surgeon general for his part felt compelled to issue a statement he says that is important to talk to a doctor before any medical treatment is sought we should also point out that the food and drug administration also feels it's important to put out this statement in light of the fact that the president has pushed the lariat drugs like hydroxy clore queen saying in fact that if you do cells treat you are susceptible to heart rhythm problems there's a real fear that people may take medical treatment into their own hands and this is a concern given the fact that the number of deaths as a result of coronavirus has now exceeded 50000. new york state is the

worst hit area in the u.s. it's governor andrew cuomo has warned that reopening the economy too early in any american state will be a danger to others. if you say well we're done houston house anymore let's just reopen just. start business tomorrow let's go what happens that's what happens all the progress we made is gone and. experts or virtually all experts will say not only does the virus spread increase but it increases to a higher point than we had increased the 1st time and recall is a well n.b.c. correspondent jake gray is in marietta in the u.s. state of georgia where businesses such as james hair salons and bowling alleys have

reopened their doors this strip shopping center in georgia really highlights the business is at the center of the controversy here you've got a nail salon and spa there right behind us a gym as you keep moving across you've got a hair salon and even a chiropractor these are all places that are open now and places where it's difficult in some cases impossible to maintain proper social distancing so that has a lot of people who are frustrated concerned that the numbers of infection or going to climb dramatically governor brian kemp of georgia along with the business owners who are opening say they can do this lonely and safely and really start to step toward getting back to some sense of normalcy you're the rest of the nation watching this area very closely right now you've got a home. trying to reopen you've got tennessee and other states who are making their plans as well and then you've got just as many other states saying no we're going

to extend our stay at home warnings we're going to keep businesses closed a bit longer so this is a real testing ground right now you could say. well it's take a closer look now at the number of confirmed cases and deaths in the u.s. now with pete immunologist eric feigele thing who joins us live from washington d.c. via skype sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera so we saw the examples of 2 very different states there in new york state andrew cuomo saying you know that if some states reopen it could undo all the progress made and then we see georgia that's reopened what are obviously nonessential businesses what do you make of the u.s. is reaction to this crisis and the worrying milestone of having reached 50000 deaths. yeah 50000 deaths is 1st of all extremely worrisome you know trying to probe previously said recently doubt oh you're less will talk about 60000 deaths and at the rate there were going up and basically to 3000 does

a day i think that number will definitely hit and exceed it very quickly in terms of states i think obviously there are pockets of the u.s. in which it is increasing as well as slowing down new york fortunately is slowing down but one out of every 1000 new york residents has actually died from this and that's incredibly scary the problem with lockdowns in the us is we don't have borders no us states have actual borders that we can actually force so even if you have lock downs in some states and other states the poorest there's a borders means that there's a high risk that even of one state closes down there but the next state is open that all the states would continue to show i.d. epidemic rising and so that is why georgiou being open is very nerve racking for many other states. americans often don't have the social safety nets that you'll find in many other european countries so there's

a real pressure even more so than other places to reopen the economy so i like to have all of that what do you think the united states should do to try to contain all or deal with a crowd of virus outbreak. so us obviously you know as you were saying the basic social safety net it's very difficult obviously there's many aggressive programs for that but to actually continue have to demi 1st. testing is really key in testing not just testing at the hospitals where in the u.k. you have that as well as here people are being tested as they're being hospitalized you need of community primary care testing so the moments alone get symptoms they get tested the next day and that's that is what we need to do as a 1st step the 2nd is calm. tech tracing contact racing is once someone you find someone is infected you quickly go back in the history and find out who else they were in contact with in stop them that's the only way to stop this transmission

lockdowns or just slow down mitigation measures to truly stop an epidemic with an epidemic vaccine you need these contacts raising measures plus testing ok so test taking and contact tracing which states and which part of the of the various states do you think is even attempting to do this or perhaps exceeding. well the right now testing is still bottlenecked in so many places there are no states are doing community wide frontier testing frontier at the at the 1st moment someone gets sick . some to some state new york definitely is not massachusetts it's improving and the other thing is massachusetts has already formed an army of young people to do to contact tracing which is basically you need a shoe leather army of people to call to contact to find where those people been and every state is to create this army you may actually have to activate the u.s.

defense force the national guard to do it but creating that wave of army you know rouhani and 9000 of these content tracers in one city we need to have that in almost every major city but in and out in that mobilization we can't stop it but even there is that will confirm for us that compact tracing is the way to go forward not just among the scientists but i guess among the politicians yeah it there is it is building it's a testing context raising currently the current context racing is so critical and the other thing is having shoe leather army is not enough which you probably need to do and i think politicians are coming around to reality is a great use mobile apps out on google have already done this because the nature of it is that this virus spread so quickly that by the time someone spreads it to someone else and the other 1st person finds out they have the test the 2nd person is already spreading it and so literally you have

a 24 to 40 hour window and if unless you reach who else or that person was infected with you're not going to stop the chain of transmission that's why it's so critical at that to eric fi golding epidemiologist joining us from washington d.c. yes her thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and views with us thank you. well from the united states let's go to europe poor countries are at odds over when and how lockdowns should be lifted some are already sending children back to school and reopening small businesses but most industries including crucially the hospitality sector remain totally paralyzed with no rest by insight lawrence li reports. there is one corner of europe where you can see a reminder of what life used to be like a few short weeks ago in the spring sunshine people in the swedish capital stockholm were carrying on as if the pandemic had never happened sweden has gone

against the grain in not closing down restaurants or limiting people's movements much but you know over 2000 dead there's a worse outcome so for 'd that scandinavian neighbors the government is starting to sound a bit worried about its own guidance you talked me out with a comment from as the spring sun appears we are seeing some worrying reports about pull out or terraces and restaurants and people in crowded places and we have to take this seriously let me peek stream lee clear i don't want to see any crowded out the restaurant terraces in stockholm or anywhere else and everyone has to take on his or her responsibility and. germany has the opposite problem under the iconic brandenburg gate in berlin restaurants staged a protest by lining up hundreds of empty chairs because the authorities across the country have refused yet to countenance the reopening despite a far lower death rates than countries like sweden. and unlike sweden germany is

continuing this testing opening drive through facilities to trace more and more people ministers insist life can go back to anything like normal until the infection rates drop to the hundreds every day in terms of health care it makes perfect sense but the tension with the demands of business is growing 'd restaurant owners have run out of patients who are most at least one who would hope it's no exaggeration to say the sheer panic imagine your business which is doing very well is shut down from one day to the next it means we don't have less revenue it means we have no revenue but leases and costs continue on it a lot to be a consolation but in most countries going out to socialize remains a faraway dream. like enjoying the hope was enough the french bistro too is almost certainly maybe. it's also worth remembering that many of the most vulnerable like the elderly of the spanish city of gold couldn't afford to go out to eat even

if the option was open to them here the spanish red cross is delivering food instead of the shopping of the virus keeping people alive remains the priority. lawrence the 020. coming up on this news hour from london lock down limbo indonesians are told that they can peg to their hometowns for ramadan but they can't afford to stay in jakarta. and we refuse to die in prison inmates in argentina riot after a war that tests positive for corona virus. muslims across the globe are marking of ramadan their holiest month of the year but while traditional rituals include gatherings for food and prayers many people will have to forgo these this year because of coronavirus lockdowns people have been banned

from islam's holiest site the grand mosque in mecca the prophet's mosque in medina is also closed for the duration of the fasting period the measures were imposed by saudi arabia's government which has the highest number of infections in the gulf region. well there are fears that the number of infections in pakistan could rise rapidly during ramadan mosques have been allowed to stay open but people gathering to pray must follow social distancing measures doctors that verged the government and muslim leaders to order their closure come on hyder has more now from islamabad . across the islamic world this is indeed an unusual ramadan because all the place and the warship are closed including their 2 holiest place in the warship and mecca and medina because of the traces of an exponential rise the number of 19 gacy's the clergy head and just on however has decided otherwise

they have asked people to come out for those congregational friends after they said turn the government that they were to take matters into their own hands if they were not allowed to do so the government then said that it would indeed again as long as the distance thing was job done the standard operating procedures were adopted including disinfecting the mosque before the prayers what we had been able to see had in fact a standard. disregard as far as that degree meant as a concern that doctors here are also worried because they're the front line against go read 19 there was a little bit because they do not have the personal protection equipment that is necessary and they warn that congregational prayer including the night known as that. which brings a large number of people in the month of ramadan is going to forward the day to

public safety. at least those who think. it is not. something that pakistan can ill afford because of its poor medical infrastructure and also the tape to their doctor have been pleading with the government and the clergy to reconsider their decision by the head in pakistan it is their religious leadership that has come into the spotlight the people warning that the clergy must. the warnings by the world health organization . but they also did a project on the government caving in under pressure of the religious clergy and. maybe politically more do it did budgets than can order ford or did read the prices on the 4th throated already expedient thing and awarded helped organize already warned that if this is not big in theory at the.

119 by mid thelma well every ramadan more than 20000000 migrant workers leave indonesia's capital to return to their hometowns before the muslim holiday of eat but the government has banned the traditional exodus because of the corona virus outbreak many workers have found themselves stuck and say that they can't afford to stay in the capital jessica washington reports from jakarta. the bags are packed and they've paid for the tickets but this family won't be traveling anytime soon nearly all domestic and international travel in indonesia is now on hold until june yeah well yeah i always travel before eat it's the only time i can see my family i'm sad but there is nothing we can do we must follow the government's instructions on a normal day a station like this one would be packed with people and it would be even busier in

the lead up to that won't happen this year stopping people from travelling to their hometowns should help slow the spread of the virus but it also brings new challenges for those who've lost their income and say they can no longer afford life in indonesia's big city. hours before the ban came in this was the scene at one jakarta bus depot social distancing gave way to desperation thousands of people trying to get out of the capital before it was too late firing the army because of the announcement from the president about the travel ban many people panicked here is the epicenter of the covert 900 outbreak in indonesia and these travellers could spread the virus to provinces with no proper health facilities but many here feel they have no choice anyway is one of them millions of low income earners have lost their jobs because of the virus the factory eddie works is shot indefinitely his

rent is 50 dollars each month and he can't afford that now anyway. the corona virus outbreak has made this ramadan different to previous years i lost my job i'm very sad i can't live in jakarta without a job i can't afford it so i decided to go home before the ban this virus hasn't just disrupted the annual homecoming of millions but their livelihoods too just to washington al-jazeera jakarta. around the world there's been a lot. pouring of support and appreciation for health workers but in mexico it's a different story at least 21 medical workers there have been assaulted thrown off public transport and even had bleach thrown in their face they've been wrongly accused of spreading the disease the authorities say a packs have been reported in 12 states across the country so far mexico has reported more than 11600 virus cases and 1069 deaths.

inmates at an origin time prison have set their mattresses on fire and climbed onto the roof of the facility after an officer tested positive for the corona virus banners were hung from the roof of the windows artistry over reading we refused to die in prison protesters are demanding the release of high risk prisoners and the better sanitary controls within the facility at one point they threw sharp objects from the roof well that is a bore joins us live now from outside the prison ok that is they've now been on the roof for some time tell us a little bit about what's going on right now. while we're here right outside of the day was of course and this is the only prison in the city of one a scientist and for over 9 hours prisoners have been in if you can see the right on top on the rooftops of this prison this is a prison for around 1600 prisoners very currently has over 2000 so that's why

prisoners are complaining about the lack of sanitation about overcrowding among other things they're very very warm they've been screaming on us and telling us that they're worried because one guard tested positive and 6 others have been isolated and those who have in the system structures are smart they are bts an a.t.v. and are asking you know to be sent to serve house arrest what's going on here we've been seeing some prisoners storing rocks and other sharp items and the police firing back with a rubber bullets not a long time ago it was easy to hear some explosions on point the latest think we've heard so far is that some negotiations have been ongoing between the national governments and some leaders inside the prison however most of the people we have heard from that are right on the rules are saying that they have not heard anything just yet. the president is expected to announce an extension to the law now in.

in argentina how's it going so far and how will that news be welcomed d.s.e. . well the announcement is in it would have been this friday or saturday and it is affected that the president will announce a lockdown until probably made that tense argentina was one of the 1st countries to impose a lockdown the government says the president said he was prioritizing the lives over the economy argentina has over $3000.00 cases of corner virus that figure is expected to be higher but it is in a way controlled this compared to other countries in latin america like mexico and brazil but still this lockdown is having an enormous impact on argentina's economy many businesses are closing down or being shut down because of the current situation unemployment on the rise i didn't know the economy was already in trouble prior to the current crisis recession double digit inflation poverty rates on the

rise and on wednesday argentina officially said that they were not going to pave the latest interest only to foreign creditors this means that starting in about a month argentina could be officially on default of course there's a lot of worry about what could happen in the country in the future argentina has seen a crisis back in 2001 when it already defaulted on its already debt poverty rates were much higher 60 percent and of course there's lots of fears that something like this could happen once again. visible with the latest there from outside that prison in but as i have histories of for the moment thank you. well we have lots more still to come on this news hour including a double lifeline for air france and caleb to help the airline survive the coronavirus pandemic and another blow for brazil's president as his justice minister resigns accusing him of potential criminal meddling.

we got some subtle changes taking place in the weather across europe at the moment it's turning cooler now after a recent he wave in scandinavia will see a few showers the lair across spain and portugal but not as widespread as they have been recently have been losing that live the weather across greece pushing across the east side of the mediterranean the central part yes at the moment is staying warm plenty of spring sunshine there savannah getting up to around 20 celsius on saturday afternoon cola there in london at around 17 degrees bits and pieces of cloud and rain rolling into central parts of france and we got a scattering of showers there across parts of the iberian peninsula one of that lot of cloud of right up into that western side of russia is colder there in moscow as well with a top temperature of around 7 degrees celsius a similar temperature on sunday that rain will become

a little more intense as we go on into sunday bright skies coming behind but it is said to have a fresh a feel to things as we go on through the 2nd half of the weekend still some showers into central southern parts of france down into spain and portugal that the showers just popping up a touch at this stage and some of those showers they will cause run across northern parts of morocco say spent to see some wet weather here as you go on through sas day it will be heavy at times but it's a fine dry and sunny across egypt. for . more on the most town's initial response had been inadequate but now it was time for a revival. many muslims now moved from merely reacting to taking action putting the western crusaders on the defensive with hindsight this is seen as a breakthrough as a revival of the jihad in the muslim near east the crusades an arab perspective

episode to revive on the jazzier. as the world battles the corona virus and millions of infections staff had tested positive for the corona virus with countries in lockdown and the threat of a major economic crisis the feel of lost a global g.d.p. could be around 9 trillion dollars we'll bring you the latest developments from around the globe prosecutors say they're also seeing price gouging on vital medical supply coronavirus and special coverage on al-jazeera. the the early.

reminder now of the top stories on our leaders from around the world have united to launch an initiative to accelerate work on drugs tests and a vaccine for covert 90 the campaign aims to ensure any new vaccines and treatments are available to all the u.s. is that recorded more than 50000 coronavirus despite this new milestone the state of georgia has pushed ahead with opening. businesses and us president says he was being sarcastic when he raised the possibility of injecting people with this infect into the fight coronavirus is common to drew widespread criticism from doctors and experts. a u.k. government website for booking coronavirus tests was overwhelmed by users hours after going online and it had to shut down briefly essential workers are now eligible to use the service if they're showing symptoms the government's been criticized for the slow rollout of mass testing as the number of deaths across the country nears 20000. more now from just outside london.

here is the thing about this doll testing situation in the u.k. we have people care workers health workers essential workers who are calling out to be tested we have a government saying that it is trying to reach one $100000.00 tests a day by the end of the month that it's capacity at the moment is about $50000.00 day that is doing say roughly about $25000.00 actual tests and yet you come to these places which have the drive through testing centers and there is hardly anybody here i mean something doesn't work out where this is really strange clearly the government has got itself into a hole with testing it's become a serious scandal in the u.k. and one of the things that the government has done in the last couple of days to try and get on top of it is to expand did it did the type of people who are

eligible for tests places like this now previously it would be mostly at h s health care workers people also who work in retirement homes etc but now police. teaches. people who work in supermarkets etc anyone who's considered an essential worker could also apply online and come down here and get their tests done too but this whole system has fallen over quite quickly while the government might say i'm full of every sort of success but they had to shut down the application process only a few hours after it started because they had too many applicants. the french and dutch governments have announced a multi-billion dollar bailout for air france and k. 11 the carriers will receive $7000000000.00 in emergency aid from france after its planes were largely grounded by lockdowns across the globe the netherlands also

announced its government would provide up to $4000000000.00 to help the airlines survive the devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic. planes where francis granted there are no flights and therefore we must support it we're going to bring the demand of the president to the prime minister story support for france $7000000000.00 euros to save and national company to save the 350000 direct direct employees who come with them that will be precisely 4000000000 euros in state guaranteed bank runs and 3000000000 euros of loans directly from the state a french court has rejected amazon's appeal against a ruling that restricts what it can deliver during the pandemic the online retailer must limit deliveries in the country to essential items including tech products health items and food the company will be fined for any delivery that breaches the

requirements amazon employs 10000 people across 6 warehouses in france 470 of refugees and migrants are being quarantined in a hotel in southern greece with nearly one 3rd the testing positive for the corona virus greece's infection rate has been relatively low compared to other e.u. countries but concern is mounting over its migrant population john psaropoulos reports now from port au haiti. whew hew a truck sprays chemicals to disinfect the air around the galaxy hotel 148 asylum seekers and 2 staff members here have tested positive for corona virus most show no symptoms which may be how the disease a skate to the authorities attention until now but that may change we saw one man taken to hospital with breathing problems the outbreak has led to concerns of infection among people from the local community here in southern greece who supply

all maintain the hotel and i mean i'm the guy you can rule out this is check up on that we tested 177 people who came into contact with refugees like supermarket workers couriers bank workers and pharmacists and were tremendously relieved to find out today that all the samples are negative which means there's been no spread of the infection there have been 2 previous outbreaks in facilities housing asylum seekers but infection rates there reached one percent of the resident population or less before storage fees quarantines them here for the 1st time they have reached 31 percent it is exactly what authorities have sought to prevent and this is what they want to prevent happening in the more crowded camps only a jian islands home 235000 asylum seekers here people live in cramped huts and tents and there's limited access to running water and soap fears of a corona virus outbreak earlier this month caused a riot at the refugee camp on heroes which destroyed offices the international

organization for migration which runs 30 refugee camps on the mainland including the galaxy hotel says information is vital to prevent panic what you say. why don't you understand. what you're trying to do. knowing that we were attacked passed messages convey messages there are important to do it was the same thing that we do it is to create a network of what's up so to try to keep them for because if they're not inform you know they. don't. and they make assumptions that lead to only 2 girls the greek government has put the entire region under quarantine and it says it will stop using hotels to house migrants this year but the hilly relies on tourism for revenue and its leaders want to open up the business as soon as

possible jumpstart openness al-jazeera put it to haley. human rights watch says rwandan authorities have arbitrarily arrested dozens of people accused of violating curfew measures without due process among those arrested are journalists trying to expose abuses by security forces during the lockdown it also says reports of rapes killings and other serious crimes by security forces must be investigated this month rwanda's the fence forces said it had the taint that 5 soldiers. president's public prosecutor has asked the supreme court to authorize an investigation into allegations made by the former justice minister said to model against the president j. have both said otto said your motto out who's a former anticorruption judge a step down on friday shortly after paul sato sacked the federal police chief model

has accused the brazilian president of potentially criminal meddling in law enforcement ok let's take you straight now to white house because president donald trump is about to start or has started his corner fire suppression that's innocent new cases in new york are down 50 percent compared to a week ago and fatalities are down 40 percent over the same period in louisiana the rate a positive test result a decline from 25 percent down to 15 percent in the last 7 days alone 18 states now show a decline in a number of positive tests in the last 7 days so over the last 7 days been very very significant progress half of all americans live in states that have now taken steps to open their economies just yesterday governors gavin newsome california tim waltz of minnesota and billy of tennessee announced additional plans to research

certain sectors we ask every american to maintain vigilance hygiene social distancing and voluntary use of face coverings we're opening our country it's very exciting to see we have a lot of talent involved from governors down to people that just stand there and help you with the doors there's been tremendous talent involved and tremendous spirit from our country country is. great place and it's going to be greater than ever before i really believe that i think there's going to be a tremendous upward shift as spoke with tim cook today of apple and they have a good sense of the market and he feels it's going to be a v. the v. is sharply upward later on as we actually get it fully open. today i signed the paycheck protection program and health care and has been act providing $320000000000.00 to keep american workers on the payroll $30000000000.00 of the

paycheck protection funds will be reserved for small financial institutions including those that serve minority in distressed communities extending vital relief to thousands of african-american and hispanic american small business owners and their employees the bill also deliver $75000000000.00 for hospitals so badly needed fossils have taken a very big hit and medical providers in areas less affected by the virus hospitals and doctors should work with their state and local health officials on ways to safely resume elective medical treatments and care under the cares act we're sending direct payments to millions of american workers more than $80000000.00 americans have already received their payment $3400.00 for a typical family of $43400.00 that's great and you deserve it it cares act requires that the federal government send out

a notice of what benefits americans are receiving to fulfill the requirement the treasury department is mailing a letter to me it will include the amount their economic impact payment how it will arrived direct deposit check or prepaid debit card as well as a message to the nation letting each american know that we are getting through this challenge together as one american family and that's what's been happening the whole world is watching us you have $184.00 countries out there that have been hit and now it's probably higher than that but they're all watching us they're all watching and they're calling and they respect what we're doing so much and i spoke with the leaders of numerous countries today they're asking if we can send them ventilators a. green to do it we have tremendous capacity now over capacity of ventilators we're filling up stockpiles for our states and for ourselves the federal government

has over $10000.00 ventilators and we could have a lot more if we wanted to do that but we're helping mexico honduras indonesia and france we're sending to france we're sending to spain we're sending to italy and we'll probably be sending to germany should they need them over the last 3 years we built the strongest economy in the most successful country the world has ever seen greatest economy the world has ever seen nobody's ever done anything like what we were able to do. and we will rebuild that economy our economy in the not too distant future i really believe with all 'd that we've learned and all that we've done will be just as strong and maybe stronger than ever before even stronger than it was just 2 months ago. some interesting note is that the f.d.a. approved the 1st at home covert 19 test kit just got approved and dr steven where is stephen stephen hans it is going to say

a couple of words about that and some other things i want to thank steve of the f.d.a. has been incredible they've been approving not only this but they've been approving many things that are paste that's never happened before and they're being very safe about it as stephen told me still many told me very strongly but at the same time they're proving things that record numbers in a record at a record rate and it's really been helpful many tests are going on many vaccine tests and. tests of every different guy and things are happening just like this event things are happening very rapidly and i'd like to have steven tell you a little bit about it thank you very much. thank you thank you mr president. we should have to tell you about what's happening at the f.d.a. we have a team of more than 18000 employees including 10000 scientists doctors pharmacists and nurses and they've been working around the clock because as you probably know

many of the medical products that are being used for the code in 1000 out break are in fact regulated by f.d.a. the staff have been hard at work authorizing tests and other medical products. as part of these efforts to support diagnostic test developments during this global pandemic the president has asked us and under the leadership to actually cut down as many barriers as it possibly could to get medical products on into the medical community and we have done that the course recognizing the urgency of the situation i do want to emphasize what the president said that is that we are very much paying attention to safety and with respect to test political reliability of those tests and i think it's really important to understand how far we've come in just a few short months the academic community which i come from the private sector. the government we've come together to develop diagnostics for a completely new infectious disease and it's really important we've heard from many test developers both in academia and in the manufacturing world this normally takes

years to develop you've heard dr birch talk about the fact that each i.v. tests have taken many many years to develop this is happened in weeks and months we've been laser focused on working with both industry and academia to actually make this happen to date under emergency use authorization approach we've quickly reviewed and authorize 63 tests both diagnostic as well as sera logic that is the antibody test we've had several points of care tests and that's important because those can be done urgency room for the doctor's office success or a and much more convenient for the patient and this week is the president said we authorized the 1st path home test by a company called lab corp this is a test where under certain circumstances with a doctor's supervision a test can be mailed to a patient in the patient can perform the self swab and then mail it back and get the results after that time all under the guidance of a license physician and we're not just letting up with these 63 tests we've approved we are working with more than 400 test developers who are pursuing

authorization for their diagnosed gnostics under our current policies and under our record regulatory approach which is quite flexible many other tests are becoming available we are we have heard and have just words i mean there's doctors even the commissioner of the food and drug administration in the us led forces out of the. briefing at. the us about the court of iris pandemic. that were mentions of testing and we will of course bring you more analysis on that when we hear from president trying to get in and the question section at all briefing we'll continue with our normal programming and go back to these questions. france when the president takes the podium again. so let's go back to the latest news from brazil where the public prosecutor has asked the supreme court to authorize an

investigation into allegations made by the former justice minister said tomorrow against the president of also nat'l morrow who is a former anti corruption judge stepped down earlier after bill so that all sacked the federal police chief is. more wants president also now told me he wanted to appoint someone who he personally knew as head of the federal police somebody who call and get information from that he gets intelligence reports from really it's not the role of the federal police to give that kind of information investigations have to be confidential. but also has dismissed the allegations against them as baseless to be aero is founder of the online magazine the brazilian reporting joins us now via skype from sao paolo thank you for joining us here on out 0 it's getting very convoluted obviously in brazil we're seeing a lot of resignations in the middle of a pandemic how do you read the situation. thanks for having the timing is it

certainly odd to see the justice minister resigned amid the worse than we can the century but the fact that he and also the product ways is not necessarily shocking because model has lost nearly battles within the administration. with his own take irruption efforts have been curbed by the president's so what they see now is the boss of the getting more isolated politically we are heading towards a very. very bad recession we are still in with the economy at a halt because of the quarantine roost but another was just acting like a wild card and seeming more desperate by the day. as a war the worse when he joined the boss of the cabinet he was thought to be one of the adults in the room one of the cabinet members that would curb also not as worst

impulses and apparently were running out of adults. that also that has denied that trying to interfere in any police investigation or shielding his family members from scrutiny so that's his side but how damaging do you think this is for the president himself i mean a few days ago we also saw the resignation of the health minister so it does seem like years losing support or certainly government members. yes a lot of mainstream conservatives have already parted ways but also how the he's getting more and more isolated and the fact that the justice minister who is much more popular than also now that we see in specially among conservatives as a symbol of anti-corruption struggles when he says publicly that the president is trying to temper with federal investigations that leaves the president in the very

difficult situation it's still too soon to say that we could see it in pietschmann or that the investigation that the prosecutor general will have any effect because both a little has beaten. unfavorable odds over this past year but it certainly seems that right now the best case in there for most of the other is to clean down to his office and just a as a lame duck president dragging himself into the end of his term in 2022 was 70 beato founder of the online magazine the brazilian report thanks for talking to us thank you at least 12 wildlife rangers have been killed in an attack in virunga national park in the democratic republic of congo at least 5 other people were also killed in the ambush that's the worst in the park's history if you don't get is home to half the world's population of mountain gorillas in the past 20 years at

least 180 rangers have been killed while protecting animals there in 2018 the park was closed for 8 months after a series of attacks including one that left 6 people dead. a unilateral ceasefire in yemen has been extended for a month that's according to a spokesman for the saudi u.a.e. coalition the original 2 week truce was the clarity after the un secretary-general called for a global ceasefire because of the coronavirus yemen's health care system is already on the verge of collapse and more than half the population faces acute food shortages the saudi human rights activist a has died in prison and missed the international called him a fearless champion for human rights how made was purse prosecuted several times for his work in 2013 he was sentenced to 11 years in jail on charges of breaking allegiance to the ruler and inciting the sword or

a saudi human rights group says hamid was transferred to hospital several months ago when his health deteriorated it also said doctors recommended urgent heart surgery but the saudi authorities returned him to prison a small group of protesters has returned to hong kong's financial district in a show of support for arrested pro-democracy activists they wore masks and kept apart from each other because of coronavirus distancing restrictions last week on kong police arrested 15 prominent opposition figures in connection with last year's mass them strange. for 3 decades the hubble telescope has been peering in deep into the universe and beaming spectacular images of distant galaxies back to earth as nasa marks hubble's 30th anniversary the harding reports now on how it's changed our understanding of space.

54321 and. they started discovering how to place a window on the universe hubble is the 1st major optical telescope sent into space taking energis from above the distortion of the atmosphere and light pollution nasa has called it the ultimate mountaintop and when the possibility of a telescope in space opened up astronomers jumped on the idea scientists have used hubble to observe the most distant stars and galaxies as well as the planets in our solar system its most famous photo was taken in 1995 a so-called deep field image showing areas of the universe as they were billions of years ago during 3 decades in orbit hubble has influenced many people back on earth it's my job to make things up for a living and constantly use my imagination but hubble and the dedicated scientists

behind it take all of that a step further i've been fortunate to work on shows like your vel than star the lack of i spent almost 2 decades on star trek a space is kind of my game but you know. when you look at this this gifted to us. changes not just mine it changes your d.n.a. . hubble orbits the earth once every hour and a half giving us a great witness in space hubble was also the 1st telescope designed to be visited in space so astronauts could carry out repairs but early in its mission engineers found a problem that shocked them the images sent back to earth were blurred. or is that just like i think you know. the spacecraft just going out of its misery.

after 12 years of construction at a cost of billions of dollars astronauts were sent to space in 1903 to fix a faulty lens for your car or your. that mission was a success in fantastic images began to be transmitted back to earth when people talk about the legacy of hubble. i think among its greatest legacies will be. helping humanity understand that you know when things go to space we can in fact they're not it's not hopeless if there's something wrong we can service them in many cases if we make some preparation to do that. but hubble does have an expiry date scientist estimate it should last another 5 years or until it solar batteries stopped working until been hubble can build on its like a c. revealing yet more images from far depths of our universe well you heard in

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