mother goodbye on al-jazeera. shave. i really really not getting anywhere near. a whistle blower says the u.s. president sought quick fixes to treat coronavirus trying to fast track unproven drugs. some say than this is our live from our world headquarters in holes are coming out back to school students return in the original at the center of the corona virus outbreak. south korea relaxes restrictions on social distancing as the country

gradually reopens. dealing with more waste from people stuck at home we look at extra safety precautions for rescues collectives. they get out there they get the job done over and or. not actually going for them in the light of this make sure you take care of. the u.s. president's handling of the coronavirus crisis is under even greater scrutiny after accusations he sought quick fixes by rushing unproven drugs to patients and as the death toll passes 70000 down trump says he's considering winding down the task force set up to respond to the pandemic mike hanna has the latest from washington no facemask for the president while visiting an aerospace company repurposed to produce masks. this in defiance of his administration's guidelines that masks

should be worn in public at all times the president confirmed reports that he was considering shutting down the coronavirus task force that has been responsible for the federal response to the pandemic as far as the task force my pension the task force and done a great job but we're now looking at a little bit of a different form and their former safety and opening and we'll. have a different group probably set up for them are you saying mission accomplished no no no no the mission accomplished is when it's over while the president was on his travels this document was handed over to the office of the special counsel an $89.00 page whistle blower report alleging the trumpet ministration ignored early warnings about the coronavirus the authors dr rick bright the former director of the biomedical advanced research 'd and development authority the country's controlling body put vaccine production he alleges he was unfairly removed from his

job following complaints about the administration's lack of urgency in reacting to the pandemic he also specifically mentions resisting pressure from senior officials to pass track the use of the drug hydroxy korak when and chloroquine itself in treatment for the virus with the drug was heavily and repeatedly touted by the president himself as a task force briefings i think it's going to be very exciting i think it could be. the game changer and maybe not and maybe not but i think it could be based on what i see it could be a game changer dr bright contends his opposition to this position led directly to suspect of demotion as officials sought to placate the president now a lot of what dr great whistleblower complaint is about or demonstrate the extent to which the government at the higher level is committed not to solving the problem but to keeping down trump happy today keeping him happy tomorrow and that's not a way to address a very major problem it was only a week ago that the f.d.a.

for me cautioned against the use of these drugs for the treatment of coronavirus despite the warnings that dr bright made back in january perhaps the most damning allegation in the report is that the administration ignored or pushed back against dr brights e-mails warning of the severity of the virus and insisting that the national stockpile of masks and ventilators needed to be augmented unlike other government officials who being demoted or fired dr bright is demanding his job back and congress will now get involved dr brights lawyers confirm he's been invited to give evidence to a house committee on thursday next week mike hanna al-jazeera washington. steve clemons is the washington editor at large for the hill he also hosts al-jazeera as weekly politics show the bottom line he believes the white house will try to

disparage rick bryant's character. this is a person who was the best in class in what he was tasked to do he had great insights into what the threats to humans all over the world but also to americans were i have any of the greatest grasp of how to quickly begin processing the partnerships to get to the kind of vaccines and therapies that americans would need and by the obsession that the administration apparently had with hydro hydroxide or equipment which is the controversial drug at the core of this debate we saw associates of the president like rudy giuliani coming out and hawking hydroxy couric went on things like facebook and fox news and you know it kind of broadly and we saw the veteran's administration begin to stockpile a hydroxy couric when very quickly so those who were able to be influenced by the president the white house move very quickly to move on a drug that had not been vetted had not been tested and that we have now seen the

national institute of health in the united states invalidate as a drug that looks as if it has any positive impact in fact they think it may have negative impact on patients that are suffering from cope at 19 so i think right now you're going to see a battle about science and i think the big thing right now that we have to look at is scientists like tony fouty deborah burke's folks like rick wright are beginning to have political weight in an election season this is not just science versus lack of science these are people that are threatening the president and he believes that they're acting politically not necessarily just because of the science that may be motivating them. for more than 120 schools of reopened in china's one hand city after they were closed for months because of coronavirus around 58000 senior high school students have been allowed to return to class but no date has been set for junior and middle school students it's the latest step in the gradual return to

normal life in one hand and surrounding province so let's go now to katrina you she joins us live from beijing katrina is this being seen as perhaps the final hurdle in the return to normal life. certainly one of the final hurdles i think these students have been horrible and not be able to attend class for more than 3 months now and certainly it's really seen as a key indicator among the people here in china of things really improving of the outbreak coming under control so we're seeing today 60000 students able to attend class for the 1st time as you said from 100 more than 120 schools but this isn't all the students many stalls schools still remain closed in particular primary school still close and also younger high still high school students are still not

able to attend classes now these students that we're seeing going into class these are the oldest high school students and they've been prioritised because they have to prepare for the university entrance exams the gulf as it's known here in china which is taking place in june and they will join a 9 high school students of their same level around the country who have started to go back to school more or less in recent weeks in different places certainly in different provinces where there has been a lower risk for some time but as you mentioned still nor a timetable for younger students and those students who are going back to classes there are still some states to precautions that they have to run to take for example classes are being divided into small groups a to really help with the social distancing as much as possible as they're undertaking their lessons another thing that we heard today is that shanghai's disneyland is also due to reopen not this week but next on may 11th so that's also and another thing that the government is really hailing as

a sign that things are going back to normal more or less around the country people have been back at work now for weeks as we've seen corinna virus cases windell according to official figures we've only had single digit new cases in recent days today or early 2 cases as of last count and most of these cases are also imported according to the government they seem to have local transmissions under control. thanks that's katrina you that come bodhi is political rivals have held a rare meeting but officials around them say the pair of voided discussing politics opposition figure kim so car went to pays respects at the prime minister's home after his mother in law's death so is facing treason charges over a video showing him talking about receiving advice from the u.s. pro-democracy groups. the living conditions of low paid foreign workers in singapore are under scrutiny they're being particularly vulnerable in

a country with almost $20000.00 cases of cope with 19 forms reports. this is what home looks like for 200000 foreign workers who live in government licensed dormitories migrants account for 85 percent of all covert 19 tases here. is us spoke on the phone to a migrant worker living in one of the dormitories he asked not to be identified for fear of being sacked when. he's tested negative but still worries about contracting the virus. i. want. like an academic in new zealand who's done research on migrant workers and think a poll says the inability to maintain physical distancing can cause

a workers' health to suffer. the way. he. gets. here only because. it is a great deal and safety in. its place thousands of healthy or recovered workers have been moved to floating hotels or military barracks to curb the spread of the coronavirus the singapore government which already has one of the highest testing rates in the world is planning to boost its capacity to 40000 tests a day the manpower minister has promised to improve the dormitories as soon as the virus crisis eason's but a migrant workers' rights group says living conditions are a sign of a much bigger problem. even though. joyous

conditions. like this. oh this makes it worse he says workers often pain allies to buy employees for being absent which could have to ted some from seeking medical attention about 20 percent of singapore's population are foreign workers there and relatively low paying jobs such as construction and manufacturing the city state doesn't have a minimum wage activists say the government is not only needs to reexamine its reliance on cheap imported labor but also the level of protection workers have florence louis al-jazeera will still have an al-jazeera a taste of home winnie the syrian family celebrating ramadan i want to paris remain

of the house. and russia struggles to contain coronavirus 3 medics fall from windows after climbing about their working conditions. we just had 2 or 3 days of pretty big thunderstorms in the higher ground of now there's nothing on satellite picture here as you can see and in the forecast i think we've seen the end of the night that's not true for the west so in yemen and the mountains in southwest of saudi arabia both wednesday and thursday could see the other couple days of big downpours and the finger of cladistics that was bahrain in qatar my particular rainbow i think mostly is going to be cloudy skies it will feel quite sticky 3738 in dubai and then the winter into a northerly and those temps will eventually drop very quickly and the breeze will

pick up and it will feel rather less humid now beyond that it's a picture of mostly dry weather the last few showers disappear out of iraq and we've got sunshine coming up to warm things up in jerusalem and very best so we need to. it is still the time of year where you get some pretty big time pours of rain in kenya and tanzania now although they disappear after the day is done they come back the next day and the coast once again to tanzania produces some pretty heavy downpours the breeze is going up the coast now this is the start of the southwest monsoon on its way to india a few showers still seem like in somalia and ethiopia otherwise we're still talking about kenya c.a.r. and they are congo where again we have seen some flooding. a lot again of television control don't know that it's tremendous for the country so i think and he was determined to quote could use a little at the point of the sword to avenge its people slaughtered 8080 is he

smashes the frankish off it captures the king of jerusalem he sees is the true cross and this is the great military victory the crusades an arab perspective that was sold 3 unification on al-jazeera. welcome back time to have a look at the headlines now the u.s. president's handling of a crowd of virus and i make is again on the scrutiny a former top official has accused the trumpet ministration of seeking quick fixes by rushing unproven drugs to patients of the 120 schools of reopened in

china's one city for nearly 60000 senior students after being closed for months because of coronavirus no dates before junior and little school students. more people were displaced through conflict in syria last year than anywhere else in the world that's according to a u.n. report that says almost a 1000000 people fled the government offensive in december since the cease fire in march tens of thousands of people have returned to their homes to find they've been destroyed or burden on reports the celebrating the holy month of ramadan in the. turks are busy out and his family finances from dusk into tune now they are breaking that fast in what was once their home. a splash of color in a sea of crushed concrete. says he fled his home marry her the end of the year when

the syrian army and the russians bombed this area. now my family and i here on top of the destruction we are reliving a very difficult and painful memory i pray that god doesn't lead anyone else experience this his mother says with the kitchen destroyed ready meals from outside my home enter 30 either the most important thing is that we will live our memories and eat our. ari high is situated in italy province a few kilometers west of the strategic m 5 highway. healthy years by rebel forces it was the major target for the syrian government to capture during an offensive in december nearly a 1000000 people were displaced by the violence most fled north arriving at the turkish border where many live in makeshift camps

a recent un report says in 2019 syria had the largest number of new displacement of any country almost 1900000 the situation for displaced people living at the buddha was dire. when a ceasefire was agreed between russia and turkey in march tens of thousands of people returned to their homes. some like abu ziad family found them completely destroyed but many found it easier to live among the ruins rather than return to the camps lured as a manly al-jazeera the president of the philippines is denying he is responsible for the closure of the main broadcast network a.b.s.e b.n. the decision shocked viewers and press freedom advocates who gathered for a vigil outside its headquarters of the river the territory has repeatedly criticized the network the telecoms authority says its broadcasting license has

expired an application to renew it has been pending in congress which is controlled by the territories allies on several island dog and joins us now from the netherlands and amidst all the crowd of virus restrictions it must be difficult for people to respond to the call by the network's president for people to come out and show their feelings about the closure. well it does i mean if we talk about people coming to the streets to protest that's not going to be possible because of the lockdown which remains in place until the middle of this month but there is strong opposition online and also in other interviews where government officials specially those in congress have actually in a way apologized to the network for failing to pass and help renew its license early enough we've been listening to different interviews with lawmakers here and they basically said that they're going to try to find and vote within the next 10

days as required by this order in order to hopefully renew the license of b.s.e. b.n. however in other platforms for example a.b.s.e ban is still able to air both in cable and online but the major. franchise basically is the free t.v. and radio and as you know there are 11000 filipino workers dependent on this biggest network in the country their lives and their jobs are now in peril they say and this comes at a very difficult time at the time when information is critical and it needs to be delivered as soon as possible in different parts of the country at this point so there has been various criticisms coming from different groups basically calling this these issues of the national telecommunications commission ill timed and poorly crafted of the same time the broad cost has been saying it'll find the way to keep services growing for the public how.

well they still do have cable channel and they do have online platforms but this is as much as they tried to do so it's not going to be the same as actually having this free t.v. channel and radio's which is broadcast even in the most far flung communities across the country this is free t.v. that allows impoverished communities to actually access information for free and this is exactly what the commission on human rights and all other rights groups have been complaining about the law may be the law but this and even if the government perhaps denies that they have something to do with this for example the solicitor general the government's top lawyer has submitted that were to shine in the supreme court against a.b.s.e b.n. and just a little over a week ago also cautioned the national telecommunications commission of issuing a provisional authority that me allow the network to continue airing and basically a provisional authority for its franchise while the well congress deliberates so we

can see there is strong outreach here at this point re largely online by those who see the network as something that has been critical in providing information and lastly a most important part about this according to rights group is that this is not the 1st time that a.b.s. c.b.s. been shut down it was shut down the in 1972 when president marcos the cleared martial law it remained close for 14 years until the marcos dictatorship was toppled in 1986 so this is basically people saying history may be repeating itself at this point or a german almond thanks so much south korea is further easing coronavirus restrictions as its number of cases declines on tuesday reported its lowest daily increase in infections since february more businesses are reopening and social events being allowed to take place south koreans started returning to work last month. south korea's containment of the virus is being praised soon after the 1st

infection was confirmed in january testing kits were quickly approved in patients isolated tracking apps drive through testing and quarantine violations fines were all introduced early to test trace and contain a number of corona virus infections hit a peak on february 29th the infection curve flattens significantly after that by mid april new infections reduced to single digits allowing the parliamentary elections to go ahead 255 south koreans have died of more than 10000 cases being recorded. well mcbride has more from outside the museum of modern math in seoul. this is a further indication of restrictions here in south korea gradually being lifted as the country emerges into this strange new post virus world here at the museum of modern art along with other museums galleries libraries across south korea they are all being allowed to open but only with very strict precautions being in place we

have the usual temperature checks of everyone entering the numbers here are strictly controlled 1st of all you would have to have registered online to visit your museum of modern art and with no more than 100 people at any one time allowed inside it's basically all part of what's known here as every day life quarantine basically the new normal but it's one that south koreans we've been speaking to seem to accept as part of the recovery from this outbreak and they are certainly welcoming the fact that they can now get back into public venues hound them and they've limited the number of people here which is good because it's not so crowded and when it's not what it is that people are still aware of the distancing measures also being allowed for the 1st time religious gatherings sporting events all those occasions that bring people together as long as they're still practicing the basic principles of social distancing then they're allowed to do so. russia has reported

the largest number of new daily cases on the european continent with infections exceeding 150003 health staff and complained about working conditions of fallen out of windows that the barber explains. digging graves in st petersburg russia 2nd city victims of copied 19 a scene that's becoming more common in choosing the country reported the highest number of new coronavirus cases in europe and now there are disturbing questions over health workers who've raised the alarm about their working. but after that you never really felt an expander issue this video on twitter shows dr alexander shoot off on the left and the colleague is explaining how she had been forced to keep working despite having covered 19 the colleague had previously criticised the hospital management for protective gear shortages and was questioned by police for allegedly spreading fake news but another video made 3 days later apparently of the

hospital seems to show shula pove by now being treated for the virus retracting their complaints. i feel right my temperature is not rising why did the this a symptomatic of a runny nose otherwise all is well what we said was said when we were high on emotions. on saturday according to local state television quoting health officials schuler paul fell from a 2nd floor window at the hospital he's now reportedly in a critical condition in intensive care after suffering skull fractures the same sources say he's the 3rd russian doctor to fall out of a window in the space of 10 days the 2 others died all 3 incidents which are being investigated by law enforcement or thirty's have prompted intense discussion in russia about whistleblowers in the health system everywhere we have a lot of problems then are a lot. of hospitals and. enough.

doctors with all her. let's don't have enough equipment. across russia the number of recorded covered 1000 cases stands at more than 155000 officially the diseases killed almost 1500 people mostly remains the country's worst hit region accounting for more than half of new cases and here 90 percent of patients are younger than 65 several cities remain on lockdown and while much of europe looks to ease restrictions the russian government says they'll stay in place until there's a vaccine. al-jazeera. health workers are going door to door in a slum in argentina's capital to contain the spread of corona virus the number of infections rose from numb to more than 150 in just 2 weeks many people are concerned the virus may spread quickly in cramped living conditions argentina has recorded nearly 4900

cases and 260 deaths. the amount of household rubbish being generated in the us as people are forced to stay at home has surged some areas have reported an increase in domestic waste of about 40 percent and that's putting a strain on refuse collectors some for oil from the virus unofficial reports from fairfax county in virginia. the neighborhoods look the scene but in the time of covert get different behind each door is a family on lockdown. which means move moved one more stress on the system to collect garbage. we see a significant change in the amount of residential volume as opposed to commercial value so with a lot of the businesses closed they're not bringing in as much but most of that volume is now going through the homes because everybody's got a stay at home order and the trash is coming in on residential vehicles. with their protective masks and gloves the sanitation what is

a pretty quickly leaping off the truck i am taking another continuing feeding on to the next. here about a 3rd of the stuff are ok because of the virus mainly due to underlying health issues or child care problems in some areas they're seeing that trash collection and recycling is up by our own 40 percent since the crisis began here in fairfax county is about 25 to 30 percent that's because more people are at home and also more people are filling out their houses because of nothing else to do. to change the rules so there's less risk for the workers and there are some restrictions. bulk collection is like this are very rare and only if you can be handled with one person one truck many of the teams are working harder and longer but their safety remains a priority there is some concern but my guys are soldiers they get out there they get the job done they know we're important. we drill down

a lot of action things for them and you know. why did this make sure that you take care of. everything is done to their show waste is down. with offices and businesses shut but it's the amount of household rubbish continues to grow then more changes will follow. the time of a global pandemic everyone lose it's important to keep places clean. and not create new problems alan fischer al-jazeera fairfax county virginia. let's take a look at the headlines now the trump administration's handling of coronaviruses again under scrutiny of former top official has accused it of looking for quick fixes by rushing unproven drugs to patients they included an untested malaria treatment pushed by the president more than 120 schools have reopened in china's

100 city nearly 60000 seniors students return to class after schools were closed for months because of coronavirus but no date has been set for junior and middle school students katrina you has more from beijing this isn't all the students many still see schools still remain closed in particular primary school it's are still closed and also younger high still high school students are still not able to attend classes now these students that we're seeing going into class these are the oldest high school students and they've been prioritised because they have to prepare for the university entrance exams think as it's known here in china which is taking place in june. south korea is further easing coronavirus restrictions as it reports fewer cases on tuesday it reported its lowest daily increase in infections since february more businesses are reopening and social events are being

allowed to take place south koreans started returning to work last month cambodia's political rivals have held the rare meeting but the fischel say they avoided talking politics a position to get him so-called paid his respects at prime minister's concerns home after his mother in law's death so far as facing charges of treason russia has reported the largest number of new daily cases in europe with total infections exceeding 150003 health staff who complained about working conditions of fall in out of windows press freedom at the kurds in the philippines have held the vigil outside a.b.s.e b.n. network headquarters after it was shut down the telecom authority said its broadcasting license had expired present of the legal deterred they denied being responsible for the closure. this is the listening post. what impact will call did 19 on the drop in the oil price come on the race to the white house can download

from survive these historic set backs and does the job only have what it takes to beat. special coverage on al-jazeera. just a shade also not official shelter suddenly shut. down production sources exist i'm sure you have also now still maintain rather to find it. so i mean i am just you know i speak out the publicity to come we say actually you . hello i'm richard has been you're watching the listening post working from home here are the coronavirus stories the media elements that we're looking at this week brazil both are not all and the fake news contagion that colors the coverage of covert 19 the world health organization took too long to get the word out on the virus but the story is more complicated than it seems.