at the at. the end. al-jazeera. to me it's not an acceptable image of. donald trump dismisses his top health experts warning about lifting coronavirus restorations too soon and calls for school surreal but. clear watching al-jazeera a lot from my headquarters in doha with me fully backed also ahead the e.u. pushes some member states to reopen their borders to kick start the tourist season but not everyone is on board. another obstacle for the launches hydroelectric dam

in africa sudan rejects ethiopia's francis stop filling the reservoir with water and parts of a chinese rocket crashed to earth in the most significant uncontrolled descent a space debris in decades. we begin in the us where president donald trump has criticized his top infectious disease experts warning against reopening the economy too quickly it follows wednesday's testimony by the leading cove in 1000 task force member dr anthony found that rushing to open up could have serious consequences including need less deaths the us is by far the worst hit country by the pandemic with more than 83000 deaths and more than 1300000 infections stomach as again states to lift coronavirus restrictions when it is. just know when it's obviously of

a surprise but as it's actually because you know. it's just to me it's not an acceptable the. let's bring in mike hanna in washington force president trump mike saying that he's surprised by dr fox his remarks i guess the distance between the president and his top infectious disease expert is much more then social. indeed yes well it's a surprise that president trump was a surprise given that dr chee has been making this comment for a period of time now warning against any premature opening up without the federal guidelines for opening up being followed among those guidelines incidentally is that a drop in the infection rate is shown over a period of 2 weeks in states that want to open up now a number of states have partially lifted restrictions even without meeting this particular guideline doctor found she's also expressed concern about the ongoing

lack of proper testing facilities he's argued very strongly that unless complete testing is in place it's very hard to track the course of the virus and that is something that would be essential data in terms of determining what areas could open up and when so certainly president trump expressing surprise is comes as a bit of a shock but also a president trump specifically taking issue with dr chee on the issue of schools now doctor saying that you shouldn't be opening schools at this particular point president trumps insisting that if you don't open schools and states don't open up doc to believe is rooted in some new research for since being released and particularly some observations in new york city with some children have to take particular form of disease from the virus now this is something very new and as dr fire chief said to the senate committee in the past 24 hours we just do not know enough about this virus for example to be opening schools without getting more

knowledge and certainly not without having effective tracking measures in place and might the president had to say that it was up to say to decide when till then so why is he so pressuring governors to open up the economy. indeed yes president trump has made that comment repeatedly saying that he can't tell governors what to do however he has that on very many occasions and in fact is doing that now tweeting on support for governors of states who are opening up dropping restrictions to a degree president trump appears absolutely intent on galvanizing the economy he believes that the only way to do that is to get the states to open up but he's also turned it into something of a political issue tweeting in recent days that the democrats he says would like all the states to stay closed until the election in november believing that they would have some advantage over president trump should that be the case so he is

politicizing this to a degree as well and that move them but election day to something that clearly plays very strongly on president trump's mind he wants the states to open up so the economy gets going he can use a successful economy as part of his election strategy and of course he wants to get back to those mass rallies that are such a buttress of his particular support so there's a clear delineation here between a health official like a doctor basing his projections on the science of the matter president trump taking other factors into account such as a particular political future and didn't deed the economy of the country on which he bases his political future thank you for that my canon life for us in washington d.c. now as some countries begin gradually easing knocked on restrictions the world health organization is warning coronavirus may never be wiped out entirely w.h.o. says is a non way to go in the fight against survivors and its experts warn that without

any threat to vaccine it could take years for the global population to build up sufficient levels of immunity. to put this on the table this where is may become just another endemic virus in our communities and this wireless may never go away hiv has not gone away we've come to terms with the virus and we have found the therapies and we found the prevention methods and people don't feel as scared. as they did before and we're offering life to people with hiv long healthy lives to people with a jury well i speak to dr gregory poland about this his director of the mayo clinic vaccine research joins us via skype from minnesota in the usa inc you very much dr for being best on al-jazeera i believe there are over a 100 candidate vaccines being explored as a means of ending the call the 1000 pandemic but the w.h.o. warning that they could be a long way to go until the there is a vaccine and that they might not even be one why is that well i think there will

be a vaccine the question is when and and my concern i just published an editorial about this is the fear that we've pushed and rushed it so quickly that we compromise safety in doing so so we need to be very careful about that but w.h.y. did we wait shows main point is that this is a barbarous with high transmissibility in the real number is probably closer to something like smallpox the next gives you a sense of this virus seeking no one host after another that it can in fact but so are they reasons and to be optimistic would you say the chances are higher then with hiv to get a vaccine because we heard in that sound bite area the w.h.o. expert comparing this to a jolly and saying that might not be a vaccine. yeah i think our chances absolutely are better with the coronavirus the difference is that each id back scene hiv virus is a kind of acquires

a species it's constantly mutating and changing and that is not the case with coronaviruses they mutate much more slowly we have much more of a lead starting in 2000 through. apologies we seem to connection there with dr gregory poland. dr poland a is so with us ok we've lost ed so hopefully we can reconnect with them a little later in the show dr poland can you hear me yes i hear you very we lost you there for a moment so you were talking to us about the difference between this virus and h.i.v. ed the facts that are there the chances of a vaccine fall coronavirus a much higher than h.i.b. yes indeed and the reason for it is that the h i.v. virus is a cause a species that means that it is constantly changing in mutating making it very hard

to devise a back seat that is not the case with corona virus it mutates much more slowly we understand what portion of the virus to make a vaccine against i think our real issue is not will we be able to make one but will we be able to make one that induces seed and long term immunity right it what about the therapies and prevention methods that have words for diseases like a child aids because i mean even even if they get a vaccine and when we get one ill so be a huge logistical challenge to actually inoculate most of the world's population. well that's right and question fully is will it take one dose will it take 2 doses will it take periodic doses. debts and manufacturing capacity that the globe really does not possess and would need to bill i thank you so much for talking to us and for giving us your insight into this dr gregory poland from the

mayo clinic joining us there from minnesota my pleasure that the european union is urging leaders to reopen borders closed because of the coronavirus pandemic tourism makes up 10 percent of the rocks economy and the e.u. says the industry is not at risk of collapse unless urgent measures are taken attash about reports from paris a glimpse of what's going on holiday in some pulse of europe will look like this summer barriers separating sun loungers on the greek island of santorini not the beach experience that most holiday makers a used to but one that complies with new social distancing rules we hope these barriers won't be the future for beaches we don't want this but if this is necessary and if people safety depends on this sort of device then so be it we just want to work we want to get going in march borders in the european union were shot and 80 all travel stopped because the coronavirus pandemic

a huge blow to the tourism industry one of the blocks main economic sectors as some countries begin to ease the lockdowns the european commission has presented a rescue plan for the tourism industry it's recommending foul choose instead of refunds for council travel sanitary measures for hospitality and transport services and the reopening of some borders of course this is not going to be a normal summer not for any of us. but when we all work together and we all do our part in the ways the commission is setting out today then we don't have to face a summer shock at home or a completely lost summer for the european tourists industry some countries say that they are already considering lifting some travel restrictions germany says that it wants to reopen its border with fraud switzerland and austria and britain and france say that they won't impose quarantine for now on people traveling between the 2 countries paris is one of the world's most visited cities the look down has

been eased but monuments museums hotels and restaurants remain closed the french government has advised people to holiday in france this year after 2 months at home some people can't wait to travel not sure about the health risk and are really worried here to be able to travel abroad and outside friends will be a valid i have a holiday home in spain and want to go but for now there are restrictions but i want to go we can't stop living more than $6000000.00 tourism jobs in the e.u. could be lost unless the industry is revived the european commission says the challenge is to encourage the sectors recovery but prevent a resurgence of corona virus cases or risk is spreading even further across the bloke who talks about low i'll just 0 paris still ahead on al-jazeera a 2nd chinese cities goes into partial lockdown after another virus cluster

imagines. hello it snowed in maine yesterday the cold air is still there in the northeast corner of the us in eastern canada but it is slowly warming up we've got temperatures at least for turning to 10 in toronto and certainly much better than the chicago but it's at the same time we've got rain and snow developing and kansas cities could be in the heart of some pretty nasty thunderstorms the still a feeder from the gulf coast so from texas towards new orleans it could well be again sundry it's that time of the year after all we did have snow falling in places like montana that's very occasional and if anything it's probably stopped altogether for the pacific coast rain is falling down through california is on its way to san francisco but it doesn't last long disappears inland for friday at the

same time his development area something to watch that suggest the weekend could be quite stormy but that's why we sit on friday something else to watch is if you're in the bahamas not this frontal system but the remains of it is already turning quite sundry so if a cuba the bahamas the tip of florida and the west is on his body to haiti this is looking very nasty very wet was thunder storms slow moving and regenerating on thursday and then again on friday. portray someone of the world only cities seen through the eyes of those who know it best they see. their fishing if you. al-jazeera world goes on the road with palestinian taxi drivers living and working at the heart of

one of the most hotly contested locations. jerusalem is a palestinian cabbies on al-jazeera. the a in the old. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. president has expressed surprise after a stop infectious disease expert warned against reopening the economy took quickly donald trump has again urged states significant of virus restrictions and for schools to reopen it follows dr anthony fox his testimony who say of rushing to open up could lead to needless tests as some countries begin gradually easing

knocked on restrictions the world health organization is warning coronavirus may never be entirely wiped out without a vaccine it could take years for the global population to build ups official levels of immunity. to china where a lockdown has been imposed in a city in the northeast the 2nd this week new cases in julian now raising fears of a possible new wave of cold in 1000 infections reports from beijing while the rest of china returns to something like normality a lockdown has been imposed on the city of lane for 25000000 people have been told to stay home and public transport is at a standstill. neighboring sure lunt city was locked down on monday more than 20 infections have been identified in dillon province since the beginning of the month but experts say it isn't a 2nd wave of disease. whenever new cases emerge the monitoring system would detect

and track the cases will curb the spread of the virus in no time in rwanda china is at the center of the outbreak the discovery of 6 new transmissions has spurred plans to test the entire city of 11000000 people district authorities have been told they have 10 days to complete testing the details are still being discussed testing in some areas began this week. analysts say the plan could cost up to $254000000.00 and requires the rapid expansion of testing facilities to han's testing capacity reached $46000.00 people today last month the people who live there say they're not surprised a new cost is been discovered so we know that a 2nd waves coming anyway there's no way we can you know prevents. the new infections. and that's on that 00 you see what i mean there's no 00 and that we are actually. the chinese government has reported about

83000 cases nationally with more than 2600 deaths since the virus broke out in december with just a week to go until china's national people's congress the biggest political gathering of the year the government here is on high alert the communist party wants to project an image of strength and victory over the virus and these 2 new classes threaten to compromise i just want to train you al-jazeera and to. south america now and mexico's president has announced a plan to reopen the economy despite health officials reporting the highest daily death toll from corona virus in some communities forcing law down saying they'll only reopen when the crisis has ended up and over a 4 star mexico city the little black cloud on tuesday mexican health officials presented a plan for returning parts of the country to a quote new normal the plan consists of

a color coordinated monitoring system that will update on which cities and states will be the ones to reopen 1st. by users in every country faces the question of is there a possibility of advancing towards a new normal and at what speed and what could be the consequences of. the gradual reopening of the country is scheduled to begin may 18th in regions that have not been affected by the. coronavirus cases in mexico are still on the rise making the reopening of the economy a controversial topic. in some communities the subject is not up for debate residents of money as they pick a small mountain town in the state of get nato have set up roadblocks and checkpoints to prevent outsiders from coming into their town i thought that this. was we have this territory controlled we don't have a coronavirus problem if we did we would need to re strategize but i ask you what's more important the freedom to transit or the right to life. state is home to dozens

of indigenous villages fear of the outbreak reaching these rural towns has prompted community defense groups to help enforce a regional lockdown the moment. we decided to act and we are doing it the right way those who do not obey well we've already made a decision for them this is the law of the people. health services in this part of mexico are limited only 50 hospital beds exist free scattered population of more than 400000 locals say the decision to close off ellipses is the only preventative measure they can take. our meeting very decided that's not a single sikh person or if people come they have to be healthy not seek a debate in mexico is brewing over how the country will strike a balance between ensuring public safety and protecting the economy though mexico's president insists that no community will be forced to comply with the government's strategy to reopen the country. mexico city is.

chile's health minister has announced the capital santiago will be put under lockdown on friday after a surge in the 19 infections $8000000.00 people will no longer be allowed to go outside exceptional essential errands people of the age of 75 across chile have also been ordered to stay home they've been met 2660 new cases in the last day taking the national to more than 34000 a lot america and its embassy in yemen has more from santiago the number of infections has just been going up and up and up and finally the government did what many people had been begging it to do now for the past few weeks and that is to declare a total lockdown here in the capital santiago just so you get an idea in the last 2 weeks the number of infected case of infected people went up 500 percent

and that means that the course the hospitals are now practically full running at near capacity the government says that it will be bringing in more ventilators tomorrow there are only about $550.00 still available for patients but the thing the situation is looking quite dire not just in the capital but in other parts of the country as well another of the announcements that was made a short while ago by the health minister is that anyone over the age of $75.00 will be quarantined indefinitely they must stay at home he says that that is because they are the most vulnerable sector of the population and would also it's the highest death rate so far chile does have a fairly low death rate $300.00 and nearly $350.00 people as of now but if the situation continues to deteriorate as i just mentioned that death rate could go up much much faster. police in guinea have opened fire on protesters demanding an end to the coronavirus lockdown at least 6 people were killed in towns near the capital

conakry has more. liberty and freedom of movement is what protesters in several cities in guinea are demanding. angry its coronavirus knocked down measures restricting them from traveling in and out of the capital conakry and living they blocked roads set fire to police vehicles at several checkpoints built to try and contain the spread of kobe bryant's love for the protesters no work means no information. at all we've. learned with fed up with this lockdown the government has abandoned us that killed 5 of their friends but we will continue to protest until they open up the roads again the security forces responded to the violence on tuesday by firing at the protesters at least 6 people were killed across 3 towns near the capital conakry. when the madness started to lift the protest when i arrived home i got

a call telling me my brother's been shot went straight to the hospital but he was already did. to me is one of the worst hit countries by the virus in west africa the government says the emergency measures are necessary protest as though it queues police of mistreating them and demanding bribes to let them through the checkpoints they are not a party. we are tired of the government we are suffering it has no interest in its people and the chick points of causing too much traffic we stuck on your calling. dealing with another disease is proving difficult following the evos outbreak which killed soon a whole 1000 people a few years ago doctors fear the poor health system limited testing and a lack of sanitation will cause kovac 19 to spread fast to try and stop that happening the government can. news to extend a nationwide state of emergency human rights watch accuses the government of using it as an excuse to violently crackdown on opposition party members and protesters.

the number of coronavirus cases and steadily increased since march despite that protesters say they'll continue to speak out against the closures curfew and checkpoints. it's just there. has turned to other world news now and sudan is rejecting ethiopia supplants to stop filling the reservoir of the largest hydroelectric dam in africa as sudanese are calling on both ethiopia and egypt to resume stalled talks to settle the dispute over the grand renaissance dam egypt and sudan tear the newly completed dam over the nile river will reduce their supply of water essential for a culture here morgan has more from parting. with sudan has rejected is not signing a complete agreement because that was not what was proposed by if you appear if you appear proposed signing a partial agreement that would spare the way for it to start filling the dime and

said that they could negotiate the rest of the feeling as they go on that something so dense as is not going to be possible because to start filling the dam there should be a cooperation agreement between the 3 countries as well as other legal agreements several rounds of talks between the 3 parties have been held here in hard time last year all of them resulted in deadlocks which was why the talks were moved to the united states in late december early january now the 3 sides met along with the u.s. counterparts there in the u.s. in washington and they have agreed on a schedule to fill the dam but they were not were able to work out many details such as how to operate during drought season and they said that they were not able to identify or determine how to identify what the drought season would be to each and every country and sudan is concerned that. if it's built and if the thoughts being filled it will have an impact on the amount of water interest. the blue nile egypt is also concerned that the amount of fresh water sources would reduce greatly especially with climate change and with more than 90 percent of its population

reliant on the nile but if you think that the dam would help elevate the social status of many of its citizens so it will continue to work on the dam and will fight for the good by july so right now what the prime minister of sudan of the lambda is proposing is a virtual negotiations between the 3 sides because of the pandemic. virus pandemic and that's something the 3 sides are yet to respond to so we're going to have to wait and see if egypt if you and if you will agree to the proposal of the sudanese prime minister and if talks will get back on track before if your peace thoughts fill in the dam by july a big piece of a chinese space rocket has crashed into the atlantic ocean becoming one of the largest species of space junk to ever free fall to earth it was the core of a rocket that successfully launched a spacecraft into orbit last week the 800 ton piece was 30 meters long and 5 meters wide and landed off the coast of mauritania now it's not unusual for rocket

boosters and space craft to fall back to earth every major space power has done it at some point from smaller japanese and european craft to one of the most memorable russia's massive m i our space station in 2001 have been efforts to create international regulations and coordinate among the various space agencies but it's largely left to individual nations to try and inform each other of their actions a u.n. treaty is in place to sort out who is liable if a space object injures someone on earth all stations try to maneuver their space junk into an official spacecraft cemetery 144-4000 kilometers east of new zealand jonathan mann doll is an astronomer at the harvard smithsonian center for astrophysics he says it appears the chinese had no plan in place to bring the rocket back to earth under control. they have been getting better about very good space citizens. and they used to launch from central china

and the lower stages of their rockets would fall on villages in china so this launch was actually going to be a new spaceport in hind an island that launches over the ocean so that safer unfortunately the the the rocket stage once in orbit either they didn't have a plan to bring it down or 'd whatever plan they had didn't work and they haven't really been forthcoming about it's not just the problem of things falling down on us it's it's things hitting each other in orbit and they're all going in all different directions at 18000 miles an hour so we're really at the point now where we need stronger international controls on how this happens and you know it started off with space is big there's only a few satellites up there what's to worry and as the use of space has grown the regulations i think of not really kept up there is actually in this national treaty on the a lot of military for damage caused by space objects this has come into play

a soviet nuclear reactor fell out of the sky on canada back in 1978 and there was a lot of international negotiation on how much of the cleanup this obvious had to pay so so this thing does come up from from from time to time and i think it's as as space gets busier and busier we're going to see more of this. so again i'm turning back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. president has expressed surprise after his top infectious disease expert warned against reopening the economy too quickly donald trump has again called on governors to lift the coronavirus restrictions and for schools to reopen it's all of testimony by by dr anthony fall to. who said rushing to open up could lead to needless deaths when they don't. you just know very closely

are you surprised by this answer actually because you know. it's just to me it's not acceptable that you. now some countries begin gradually easing logged on restrictions the world health organization is warning coronavirus may never be wiped out entirely w.h.o. says is a long way to go in the fight against survivors semir sexperts warned that without an effective vaccine it could take years for the global population to build up sufficient levels of immunity to put this on the table this where is may become just another in demick virus in our communities and this where this may never go hiv is not going away we've come to terms with the virus and we have found the therapies and we found the prevention methods and people don't feel as scared. as they did before and we're offering life to people with hiv long healthy lives to people. the european union is aging the latest survey open border is closed because of the pandemic tourism makes up 10 percent of the bronx economy in the e.u.

says the industry is not risk of collapse in china a 2nd city has been put under partial lockdown after another virus costs a message new cases in jail and they're raising fears of a possible new wave of coded 1000 infections neighboring sure man city was knocked down earlier this week chile's health minister says the capital santiago will be put under lockdown on friday after a surgeon you call that 1000 infections 8000000 people will no longer be allowed to go outside except for essential errands people over the age of 75 across chile have also been ordered to stay home they have been 2660 new cases in the last day taking the total to more than 34000. well those are the headlines on al-jazeera coming up next it's counting the cost. throughout history human kind has come together to prevail in our darkest night this is

a moment for pretty much the opposite. saving humankind i really really not getting new every generation has its moment where individual sacrifice makes way for the good of those who come after. this one is ours. hello i'm adrian figure this is counting the cost of al-jazeera a weekly look at the world of business economics this week as the g $20.00 offers a debt payment holidays of the world's poorest nations to fight the coronavirus pandemic is it time for private investors to do the same.