reveals how even the smallest devices have deadly environmental and health costs we think ok will send merry ways to china but we have to remember that air pollution travels around the globe death by design on al-jazeera. the u.s. government whistleblower issues a dire warning about the trumpet ministrations handling of the pandemic. without better planning 2020 would be the darkest winter in modern history. hello i'm adrian forget this is al jazeera live from also coming up a boost for china as its industrial sector grows by more than expected in april but the government says the economy still faces challenges.

caught between the fighting and the pandemic to tragedies that are putting yemen's people a greater risk. of severe flooding forces hundreds of thousands of people flee their homes across east africa. the u.s. vaccines expert has told congress that he was removed from his job by the trumpet ministration of the raising concerns about the government's coronavirus response dr rick bright led the federal agency in charge of developing a covert 19 vaccine he said that lives were lost because of government inaction aboard the was to the pandemic may yet be to come heidi joe castro reports. a dire warning from the medical expert formerly in charge of the u.s. government's effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine. without better planning 2020 who would be the darkest winter

in modern history immunologist rick bright told a house subcommittee he was removed from his position as head of the biomedical advanced research and development authority after resisting pressure to expand access to an unproven malaria drug promoted by president trump wright also testified that prior to the pandemic his calls for the nation to increase its medical supply stockpile went ignored from that moment i knew that we were going to have a crisis for health care workers because they were not taking action we were already behind the ball that was our last window of opportunity to turn on their production to save the lives of those health care workers and we didn't act right drafted a whistleblower complaint after his demotion a government watchdog office says it found substantial likelihood of wrongdoing in bright's removal he's among several government scientists recently ousted from their positions after clashing with trump over the coronavirus i want him to be

would like a good run to the boy the bright morning for some people that do a very good job trump discounted brights concerns about a 2nd wave of infections and headed to pennsylvania where without a mask he toured a medical equipment distributor as the economic pain from shuttered businesses continues to mount and the presidential election draws near trump says the u.s. should begin to reopen a position championed by some protesters who are also his supporters but polls show most americans think it's too early to reopen i don't know this is a very scary time and i don't think it's over right now even as lines for food giveaways snake on and newly released unemployment numbers show 36 and a half 1000000 americans have lost their jobs to the crisis. how do you know castro al-jazeera silver spring maryland dr julian fischer is from georgetown university

and says the needs to be more planning for the autumn months when susie's begins i think what dr bright did today was called attention to the next steps that absolutely have to happen to make sure that we are prepared to respond to cope at 19 not just now but as we go into fall when the when the situation becomes much more complex as we approach the typical flu season. i'm worried i'm concerned what he pointed out about the lack of planning is something that we should be paying attention to and following through and not simply dismissing as a political concern it's absolutely critical that we plan and prepare to respond going forward this is why it's so important in any event like this particularly a pandemic of this this magnitude that there is a public health expert with the technical expertise out front to help give good

solid advice and help both the public and decision makers understand what is effective and to avoid rumors or any treatment that might in the end actually risky for their health i am concerned that we don't always have the scientists and the technical experts up front giving clear and unambiguous messages about what we know what we don't know and what we are doing to close those gaps in a in a situation like this it's absolutely vital that the decision makers at every level the federal level and the state and local levels are relying on evidence based on the best information that we have from technical experts right now china's economy is recovering from the coronavirus locked down faster than expected for action was up in april for the 1st time this year but the government says the economy still faces many challenges katrina you reports from beijing. so the chinese government here is at pains to emphasize that the momentum is looking good that there is

a steady recovery and that these figures are better than expected but of course the devil is in the detail and what we are seeing a little deeper into these figures that is that the chinese economy is still struggling to recover from the core of a 19 standstill so industrial production has rebounded that is up 3.9 percent year on year and up from a 1 point one percent fall in large so those numbers a looking good retail sales unfortunately are down they fell by 7.5 percent which is even worse than what some analysts forecasted they forecasted a 6 percent fall and that's key because the chinese economy is very much powered by domestic consumption fixed asset investment was also down people are buying property here it's 10.3 percent lower and urban unemployment rose slightly that's at 6 percent and that's up 0 point one percent from march now that figure in particular is want to pay attention to unemployment is a big issue here in china because the government sees it as key to social stability

but at the same time it's very difficult to get accurate data on unemployment figures here analysts say urban unemployment could be spiking and we could see about 22000000 people lose their jobs and that's just in cities of course china has a huge migrant worker population and some estimates are saying that there could be as many as 80 to 100000000 people losing their jobs across china and that would spell a lot of trouble. japan's state of emergency has been lifted across most of the country but not in tokyo or in several other high risk areas prime minister shinzo abbay says that it's important to try to stop a chain of bankruptcies so you know. you cannot deny there is always the fear of the next trained toward a new daily life full scale social and economic activities and that truly increases the risk if each and everyone is not vigilant enough the future after 2 weeks cannot be predicted unfortunately if the number of infected people increases it may be a 2nd declination of the mage unsee

a powerful typhoon in the eastern philippines has forced tens of thousands of people into emergency shelters that are fears that typhoon vong could cause catastrophic landslides winds reaching 250 kilometers an hour destroyed homes and cut off power supplies in the central i don't have sama rescue efforts are being complicated by restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of the coronavirus i was a serious challenge over alan duggan i'm sorry joins us now live from the capital manila so this typhoon has now made landfall bring us up to speed with what's been happening. well adrian i'm right here at the headquarters of the philippine coast guard and a few 100 metres away are at least 20 cruise ships that have been anchored here for the past few weeks with hundreds of maritime crews workers also under quarantine but the situation adrian in the region is far more dire where tens of thousands of

civilians have been evacuated over the last 3 days in preparation for the brunt of typhoon vong form but local officials say the pandemic has actually may be back to wish an even more complicated because it's very difficult to implement immediate evacuation at this time but they assure civilians that in the evacuation centers they're setting up tents and giving masts and making sure that doctors are on standby morny touring the health status of civilians there now for a country that has often been you know hit by typhoons at least 20 typhoons every year the situation in the philippines is particularly difficult this year it starts do it with a volcano my young kid just a few hours away in manila where it shut down industries now after that they find dead because also shut down the entire region the blue zone where more than 50000000 people are actually have been under quarantine for almost 2 months and just as this weekend the government is planning to ease restrictions to slowly open

up industries in this typhoon has started which means the typhoon season may about to start now the government also says that the calamity fund is already short over the past few weeks it's been giving out cash aid and assistance to local governments but it also says that it's doing the best it can and it's asking for private enterprises industries to help into fish and really to to help mitigate the impact of this crisis and really important thing to remember as well in the region is the volcano in i'll buy that is also threatening to spew the heart according to vulcanologists that might even complicate the situation. and more so we are on standby for that waiting for that at this point there is no reports of serious damages at this point but there are still islands that we have yet to hear from because coms and power lines are down still out of this challenge dogon reporting live from manila so many many thanks indeed the u.n.

envoy to yemen says that a perfect storm of cholera malaria and the corona virus poses a grave risk to the population confirmed infections have risen to 72 in recent days but the charity save the children says that 385 patients showing coronavirus like symptoms have died in the past week diplomatic editor james base reports from the united nations thank you very much giving his monthly update to the un security council special envoy martin griffiths seem frustrated his efforts to achieve a cease fire have not borne fruit and the situation in southern yemen has got much worse the president i'm deeply concerned about the situation of course in the south where a perfect storm is brewing. the people of arden in particular facing outbreaks of prove it 19 and other diseases believe drink chewed malaria all are dying and of those deaths rising daily but nobody knows exactly why because the health system is

so ill equipped to diagnose and treat people. ever since the coalition began its campaign of bombardment 5 years ago the un has been describing the humanitarian situation in the country as the worst on earth saudi arabia has led the coalition and the other main military participant has been the united arab emirates yet it is forces backed by those 2 countries who are now fighting each other in the south official statistics show there been 13 deaths in yemen from cope with 19 but there is virtually no testing being carried out in the country and the real situation might be much more concerning save the children who published the to sticks from doctors in the southern port city of aden suggesting in the last 7 days alone $385.00 patients have died with corona virus like symptoms james pays

al-jazeera at the united nations the us special representative for afghanistan is blaming an eyesore affiliates the islamic state of the province for 2 deadly bombings this week on tuesday separate attacks on a funeral and a maternity hospital left dozens dead including newborn babies but. appealed to the afghan people not to fall into what i saw trapped by delaying the peace process the afghan president has ordered the military to resume offensive operations against armed groups. a weather update next year on al-jazeera then racing for resources zimbabweans struggle to maintain social distancing as they queue for water. and on the frontlines but still getting fired health care workers in the u.s. joining the growing jobless queues.

for. the strong winds are dying has been quite a strong hot shower mom blowing dancer here there's little cloud in the sky so we just see temperatures slowly rise now up to 41 in baghdad the same in kuwait their house and middle thirty's are about the same in the usa it's much hotter in mecca $42.00 to $45.00 is the range here in the weapon and we've hit $43.00 in q 8 s he extends all about through turkey and greece a natural fact we could see record heat in the next 24 hours at least but records aren't really the thing and we're down towards the tropical belt of showers now in africa which is seen some as you know no significant flooding in uganda and kenya i think we've got a bit of relief at the moment but for one rwandan tanzania not so those showers bill daly and the coastal wind is the start of the monsoon change that will eventually go cross the arabian sea towards india the time being we've also got a pretty heavy but well spaced showers in tropical africa further cyrus so we have

seen rain drug itself through the eastern cape it's really suit to there's not much cloud left forecast wise 20 in cape town 21 joe has been not exactly hot but we are talking about an early winter and the sun shining beautifully. as the world fights the corona pandemic we're learning more about this every day it's a new passenger and join our global community it's up to us on how we come together to fight i'm sorry your questions can i just ask you think this is me directly that's coming on on you tube as you were saying i'm concerned about the funny like oh nothing very quiet and keeping you up to date i'm using countries beating back and beating back successfully the stream on 00.

hello again this is al jazeera let's remind you of the main news this hour a whistleblower in the u.s. has told a congressional hearing that the nation could be facing its darkest winter in modern history dr rick bright says that he was removed from his government post because he raised concerns over the white house coronavirus response china's industrial output is recovering from the coronavirus lockdown faster than expected production was up in april for the 1st time this year the government says the economy still faces many challenges the u.n. envoy see gammons says the perfect storm of cholera malaria in the coronavirus poses a grave risk to the population confirmed cases have risen to 72 in recent days.

there are fears of a spike in corona virus cases across east africa nearly half a 1000000 people have been pushed out of their homes by severe flooding many countries have recorded the most amount of rainfall that they've seen in 40 years uganda's lake victoria is at its highest level since 1964 the rain has led to widespread flooding and forced 240000 children from their homes in countries across the east of the continent including burundi djibouti and uganda most families are now living in close quarters with overcrowded camps public buildings like schools churches and mosques are also being used as makeshift shelters vital infrastructure across the region including dozens of hospitals roads and bridges have been washed away hindering access to health care deaf to cook is the spokesperson for east and southern africa for save the children she joins us now by from sydney we heard

a little bit about how dire the situation is how a people coping right now. so yes as he said we're seeing an incredibly strong right he can say he's in in full swing or at least in africa and screaming to be speed and deadly with rising floodwaters and devastating landslide as a result we've seen nearly half a 1000000 people displaced from their homes and nearly 250000 displaced children so people are really struggling we have to say these displaced families now living in squalid conditions they're either living in displacement camps or in schools that have been abandoned because it's covered 90 lockdowns there might be an empty churches and mosques anywhere where they can find shelter for many of these families they have no access to sanitation facilities like toilets and they don't have access to clean water so it's extremely challenging situation for millions of people at the moment so how do you get aid to these people given the conditions. so

it's extremely challenging to get to people in these in these conditions at flood situations in general a difficult because of the. difficulties around access routes and for us in flood in flood emergencies the biggest priority is around maintaining hygiene and fresh water to avoid the spread of say so currently our teams are on the ground distributing tents to families voting household kits to help families who might be stuck in close confines with others to reduce the reliance on sched the still ities and in places like somalia trucking out clean water and making our health teams mobile so that they can access it but it is an extremely challenging situation so you could have acute diarrhea cholera you moni. and also the risk of covert 19 this is the perfect storm of. it is indeed the perfect storm where

extremely concerned about the increased risk of bentley's contracting those diseases you mention but also the kinds of 19 thanks to the limited water clean water and sanitation we all know that the best way to stop the spread of carbon 19 is through stations in saying and hygiene practices like regular hand washing it's not hard to imagine how difficult that must be to practice when you don't have access to clean will chop you don't have access to twilit and you're living shoulder to shoulder with other families in a displacement camp it really is the perfect storm for the good to talk to you many thanks indeed death to cook that from save the children kenya has begun mass testing of truck drivers entering its borders many east african nations are on the locked out a lead truckers are exempt as they distribute essential goods for the public health officials are concerned they could be super spreaders of the coronavirus all truck

drivers passing through kenya must now undergo testing every 2 weeks and carry a certificate proving that they've tested negative. water shortages in zimbabwe are causing increased hardship for many that's on top of coronavirus restrictions on employment and the crippling economic crisis of 0 a helmet reports. crowd scramble to carry as many buckets as they can as a water tank arrives into griese or many go for days without water and the town on the outskirts of the capital harare has anxiously waited for summer spite to have been on a better support others say they were about to give us lunch at the funeral but i knew i had to run the moment i heard the truck. go to escape because of the worst drought in decades forcing many to leave their homes as they just had to get their share of water it's difficult to practice social distancing covert 19 is the new threat to the area once the epicenter of

a nationwide cholera epidemic graeme what do we have that they are not got yes i got the water but chances are that i also got the disease social distancing here you can't avoid the pushing everyone wants a drop. in other townships aid groups are trying to enforce the rules so is that what the point is that what happens community is this will take place with the image we see it being so what we did is. still in use we connected to training for the what happened for me to use sensitizing them to fight us and how it speeds in any encourage that the social distancing if they were to place so that when people are searching what are they encourage social distancing so that these centers this what a place might become if the same people can get to fight us but some residents say it isn't enough to keep people safe and want a long term solution if you we're going to deal with you as a singer we thank doctors without borders for these water points because we are

desperate for water hunger is hitting us hard during these times of covert 19 we can die from malnutrition and disease we also need food where human rights want. says more than 2000000 people in harare cons get safe drinking water or waste disposal services and is the government to improve infrastructure zimbabweans also face food and fuel shortages and a surge in malaria cases with the economy in turmoil many are forced to stockpile as much as they can and q 4 hours for basic necessities risking their health in the process. or hang about has become the 1st person to test positive for the corona virus inside a refugee camp in bangladesh health experts warn that the virus could race through the settlements where nearly a 1000000 people live the camps have been home to the rangar refugees since they fled a military offensive in the organ 2 years ago that we started out as

a spokeswoman for the un's refugee agency in cox's bazaar she says that adequate resources are needed for those who could become infected. very worrying development and today but the 1st step positive case within the refugee camps so far just a hunch an ace and tests have been done and most of the refugee population but in the causes but our district is the number is continuing to increase leaves 134 cases and causes our district today and in bangladesh more generally the numbers are 3 and circumflex isn't so the numbers continue to increase that there is a shortage of testing however it is increasing and testing only began in causes or at the beginning of april so we're in can't continue to increase the testing and what's particularly important for us at the moment is to establish adequate response capacity and we've been putting preparatory measures in place with the governments of partners since the beginning of march but at the moment what we need is to have adequate facilities to cater for people who may be infected social distancing is extremely difficult it's the biggest refugee population in the worlds

we have had more than 40000 people living living prisk we're conscious so it's very very challenging and in terms of hygiene promotion we have established hand-washing facilities all over the county we're increasing distributions and in terms of response capacity at u.n.h. there is a stoppage to isolation and treatment facilities which should be operational from from next week and while there are other partners are also submachine isolation treatment facilities and also quarantine facilities so basically anybody who is identified as being over 1000 positive all contacts through the contact tracing in these people who put into quarantine at the moment the target is to have $1100.00 and isolation treatment beds available which will be both for the refugee population and the local bangladeshi population but at the moment we want to reach the tigers. there are fans of a 2nd wave of infections in spain after a nationwide antibody survey showed that only about 5 percent of the population has

contracted the virus. deals a blow to the prospects of herd immunity which needs much higher levels of contagion to be effective well than 27000 deaths and almost 230000 cases have been recorded in spain making it one of the worst affected countries in the world. record numbers of americans of been making unemployment claims in recent weeks and now health care workers who are on the frontline of the crisis and joining the jobless queue of zeros shahab returns he reports. it hasn't gone unnoticed that even as the u.s. salutes front line workers in this case with military flyovers at a conservatively estimated $60000.00 an hour over at least 22 cities health care workers are being fired at alarming rates due to a lack of from us and that's despite 100000000000 dollars in funding post by congress specifically to help medical providers preliminary estimates for april showed

a loss of 1400000 health care jobs with 135000 hospital stuff such as revenue rich elective surgeries and routine visits were canceled his data report on the situation as well. so what we're seeing today is what was going on in and around the middle so i certainly think i would not be surprised. when we see next month 317 stuff will find at this hospital in san diego those who remain say some of those were frontline kovan stone as with millions of others in the u.s. and then now without their employer based health insurance when they may need it most everybody was still devastated were reeling from that. everybody demoralized on the or is that right now and of course there were. a lot of. or nurses and now they're worried that after a 14 day between 2 to 14 day incubation period what if they get infected now we

don't have an. so it's easy for a lot of. executives to say oh oh you know these health care workers and nurses are hero and then they can really just drop it like nothing but palomar health which runs the hospital said it had no choice not only is revenue down in areas not connected to the pandemic it isn't treating high numbers of patients either meanwhile health care workers who remain acing that hours on wages cut while fearing job loss and that's particularly so it would have been a little noticed but a growing sector in u.s. medicine hospitals and medical stuffing controlled by private equity firms will street spent 100000000000 dollars on health care assets in 2018 aloon private equities financial bubble is based on profits for investors that beat the rest of the market and that's made these assets particularly vulnerable now those emergency

rooms are the ones that have been at the forefront of cutting salaries and cutting doctor salaries it's the extreme form of a for profit system they are reacting quickly in order to get their money our repay their investors before the organizations collapse private equity blames medical insurance companies for forcing them to make cuts and it's true insurance companies are already seeing and projecting healthy profits as a result of the pandemic but as the emergency continues while many flaws within the us health care system have been revealed increasingly there's debate as to whether it's the system itself that is broken she ever tensely al-jazeera. prosecutors in malaysia have dropped money laundering charges against the stepson of the former prime minister a hollywood producer reason as he is was accused of illegally receiving $250000000000.00 misappropriated from malays is sovereign wealth fund one b.

he's now agreed to pay back some of the money the u.s. department of justice suspects the disease and use the money to finance $3.00 films including the oscar nominated wolf wall street his stepfather. is at the center of the scandal and is accused of stealing billions. it is good to have you with us hello adrian fenty going to here in doha the headlines announce a 0 a whistleblower in the u.s. is told a congressional hearing the nation could be facing its darkest winter in modern history dr rick bright led the federal agency in charge of developing a covert 19 vaccine he says he was removed from his post because he raised concerns over the white house coronavirus response our window of opportunity is closing if we fail to improve our response now based on science i fear the pandemic will get

worse and be prolonged there will be likely a resurgence of co at 19 this fall ill be greatly compound it by the challenges of seasonal influenza without better planning 2020 could be the darkest winter in modern history china's industrial output is recovering from the coronavirus locked down faster than expected production was off in april for the 1st time this year but the government says the economy still faces many challenges sales tumbled in the 1st 3 months of the year as a lockdown forced shops and restaurants to close. a powerful typhoon in the eastern philippines has forced tens of thousands of people into emergency shelters winds reaching 250 kilometers an hour have destroyed homes and cut off power supplies on the central either of the of sama rescue efforts are being complicated by restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of the coronavirus the u.n. envoy to yemen says a perfect storm of color of malaria of the corona virus poses

a grave risk to the population confirmed cases of risen to $72.00 there in recent days kenya has begun the mass testing of truck drivers entering its borders public health officials are concerned that they could be super spreaders of the growth of virus all truckers passing through kenya was known to go testing every 2 weeks and carry a certificate to prove that they've tested negative or hang a man has become the 1st person to test positive for the corona virus inside a refugee camp in bangladesh health experts warned of the virus could race through the settlements when nearly a 1000000 people live and there are fears of a 2nd wave of infections in spain after a nationwide antibody survey showed only about 5 percent of the population is contract to the virus all the 27000 deaths have been recorded that. one you see on al-jazeera after the stream next. what impact will called it 19 on the drop in oil prices have on the race to the white.

can donald trump survive these historic setbacks and does joe biden have what it takes to beat. the special coverage on al-jazeera. i have a me i can look into the stream the home edition it is a show that is produced on the lockdown conditions and we focus on lockdown life around the world this is an election year in the united states this year is also the coronavirus pandemic how republicans and democrats adapting for an election that will probably have to be socially distance that is a question that we're going to be unpacking today if you have questions and thoughts and experiences and i days we'd love you to share them with us the youth is open.