if you want to help save the world. into your own. think. brazil's health minister resigns after less than a month on the job following disagreements over the president's handling of the pandemic. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera life and doha also coming up the council under lockdown millions of chileans are told to stay at home as infections rise across santiago. more bold claims from the u.s. president and experts warn against a suggestion of a covert $1000.00 vaccine by the end of the year. the protesters in the u.s.

state of arizona say the end of a lockdown there will have huge consequences. the fallout from the global pandemic is having an impact across the americas and putting leaders under mounting pressure to contain the outbreak brazil's new health minister has resigned after less than a month on the job they'll sometimes has only just replaced another health minister who was fired over disagreements with president abbas and are on how to handle the pandemic and chile the search of new cases forced the government to put its capital santiago santiago that is under lockdown they only infections in the city ever isn't by 500 percent in just 2 weeks and that the u.s. the house of representatives has narrowly approved a 3 trillion dollar relief package president donald trump says the backseat might be ready by the end of the year but help experts warn that is not realistic yet he has more on the situation in latin america. nelson teach stepped down as brazil's

minister of health after just weeks in the job as president became increasingly at odds on how to deal with the coronavirus spend there make. his ministers too timid in his efforts to reopen the economy the last straw came after the president issued at the creek declaring gyms in beauty parlors essential businesses without consulting him but in his farewell press conference staged refrained from criticizing the president life is made of choices and today i chose to leave i tell you that i give the best of me during the period i spent here it's not a simple thing to lead a ministry like this one in such a difficult time. is the 2nd health minister to leave his post since the start of the crisis his predecessor. was fired in april for resisting also now risk promotion of an unproven drug to cure 19 and his unwillingness to impose social

distancing orders all this happening as brazil passes france in germany and the number of confirmed cases and the daily death tolls keeps getting higher the governor of the state of sao paulo where a lockdown remains in place despite the president's wishes as we knew this attack. was the. president remember that so far 14000 brazilians have lost their lives we are not in the game we are facing a serious crisis of health lost in the economy. but if brazil situation seems increasingly dire it doesn't look much better in mexico where infections are growing at the fastest rate since the start of the pandemic. despite that president lopez obrador announced a partial reopening starting a monday assuring us people that the pekin infections are has been reached john. we are at the point where we are beginning to have fewer cases but we have to be

careful and not take it easy yet on friday clowns appeared at various mexico city metro stations making sure passengers wear a mask wash their hands in maintain social distancing but what's clear across the region as latin america enters the worst phase of the pandemic is that this is no laughing matter alison and al jazeera alice the terrorists from they would throw wilson center and washington d.c. he believes brazil could soon become the world's 2nd most unfactored country. both are not a will not change his attitude he cannot do it he is incapable of understanding the severity of this he thinks it's all a ploy against him. and the fact the matter is however that brazil is had it in a very awful direction brazil could become

a few weeks time the 2nd largest coal the country in the world in the slums of rio in the slums of some power all of all other major cities in brazil that happens to have 30200 and. 10000000 people. and all of this could be catastrophic is already catastrophic in cities like my mouse the heart of the amazon and the man doesn't seem to understand this law hopefully someone near him will be able to explain the severity of the crisis to mr both. as i mentioned earlier chile has stepped up restrictions on its capital santiago us health care workers deal with an upsurge in cases of cope at 19 a lot america when has more on that. air force planes airlifted patients from chile's capital to hospitals in faraway cities while in santiago all ambulances

waited with patients outside a hospital emergency room entrances for up to 10 hours tens of thousands of santiago residents ignored calls for social distancing as they queued for essential goods ahead of the start of the total lockdown something presidents of us camping it ahead said would not be necessary. but the explosion of cool good 19 infections in the capital up by more than 500 percent in 2 weeks dashed his hopes of controlling contagion without shut down the economy. we are fully aware of the difficulties the restrictions and the shortages that a lockdown means for the chilean families were going to make the up mice if it to facilitate food medicine and other basic services during the quarantine might pull it out. receiving an emergency shipment of ventilators at the airport the president appealed to opponents to unite in the face of

a monumental threat behind me is the entrance to something i was general cemetery inside grave diggers have been working around the clock in order to meet and in fact surpass their yearly quota of tools in order to be prepared for the worst but many people believe it several have come to this so. the government had boasted that chile was doing better than its neighbors ignoring earlier pleas from doctors and mayors like rudolph carter to declare a total lockdown before infections got out of control. we have to say it very clearly without panicking that these next 2 weeks are going to be the hardest speaks in the history of chile since the 1973 cool we're going to have dead people you're going to have hurt families. police will be on the lookout not just for those who violate the quarantine but for traffickers who are using delivery services which are allowed to circulate as the perfect cover for distributing

illegal drugs chilies anti-narcotic squads have already made more than $200.00 arrests multi-center. they misuse well known brands of delivery services to deliver drugs instead of food or medicine why because a policeman probably won't suspect a delivery man on a bicycle that's why we're cyber patrolling the social networks to try and identify the traffickers on. the battle to stop people from violating or abusing the quarantine is on now the chilis doing good most agree is the right thing not necessarily soon enough you see in human al-jazeera santiago. and the 3 trillion dollar package in the us and helping us struggling to deal with the fallout of the pandemic has passed its 1st hurdle in congress but president trump is threatening to veto it castro reports it's at no time since the great depression have such a large number of americans sought help after losing their jobs and never in u.s.

history has their spending at stores and restaurants fallen so quickly and so far now some of the members say let's take a pause let's take a pause do you think this virus is taking a pause do you think that the rent takes a pause do you think that putting food on the table and where the hunger that comes if you can't takes a pause house democrats advance yet another coronavirus rescue package on friday the 5th of a pandemic this one totaling 3 trillion dollars it seeks to extend unemployment benefits and send more checks to american families and would bail out the postal service and address election security the republicans who control the senate have called it a partisan ideological wish list that will never become law the senate will not consider this bill the president will not sign it into law speaking from the white house rose garden into a background symphony of truck drivers protesting his handling of the pandemic

president trump announced the formation of a fast track program to develop a vaccine and have 300000000 doses available by january when a vaccine is ready the u.s. government will deploy every plane druck instilled required to help distribute it to the american people as quickly as possible but trump in facade is that with or without the vaccine the u.s. economy is ready to restart that's contrary to the advice of government health officials who've warned reopening too soon could trigger another outbreak now people get a little antsy with the mass. they really want to come out more than 2 thirds of us states have now canceled or significantly relaxed stay at home orders now as more people and their weeks of social isolation it's far from clear hell safe is the world they venture into. castro al-jazeera silver spring maryland.

professor of epidemiology and medicine at columbia university she has criticized the president's plan to fast track a back saying this timeline is quite ambitious it's quite a stretch actually i think even the the other. estimations of a year or 18 months to the development of the vaccine were already quite ambitious so the great fear is that we don't want to cut any corners in the development of a vaccine it's absolutely critical that a vaccine the shown to be safe and also be demonstrated to be effective there is no point in having a vaccine that is not safe and that does not work so i think most importantly is to stick to the science and do the studies that need to be done to get us to a safe and effective vaccine what's critical is 1st identify the candidate vaccines that meaning the molecules that look promising as a vaccine either in the laboratory or an animal studies then the next step is to

take this product this candid vaccine and test it 1st in a limited number of people to demonstrate that at least is safe in humans if it's proven to be safe in humans in a small number of individuals then we move to the 2nd reason the development of the vaccine and that is when it's tested in a larger group of individuals and hopefully then to see again and see if and then to begin to see if there is any evidence that it actually works and this process takes several months. still ahead on al-jazeera loud and proud and still wearing masks protesters are back in hong kong's shopping malls. and hundreds of thousands of people play central african republic as fighting intensifies in ethnic groups and armed gangs.

but. we have now got some kwacha weather pushing across the philippines still some showers but the winds have eased right down from tropical storm you can still see a fair amount of cloud over lose on him of course off to the huge amounts of rainfall that we have seen recently plenty of standing water but the waynes half full in a right back we are going to see showers continuing for the next couple of days fewer and further between it will start to dry up it will take some time for the waters to recede of course 31 celsius the in manila fadia showers elsewhere will see those shows extending from the biplane sheela pushing across into borneo the heat of the day showers shall is continuing to into a good part of indonesia from time to time some showers too into a certain areas of australia much of all's is fine and fry lodge the sunny weather here high pressure still in charge but on the show shadows will run their way into

the coastal fringes of new south wales pushing north of the border into queensland and more of the same as we go on into monday those showers just extending a little further north was at this stage 19 celsius in melbourne 21 in sydney was cool as it has been recently nice in new zealand but lousy dry here wellington with a high of 50 degrees. on county mcauliffe they're rich in resources but some opec nations are struggling to make any money right now. but it also could be oil prices crash we are winning the green economy needs a lot plus spoils biggest player moving in on a little piece of northeast england. counting the cost on al-jazeera. if you want to help save the world. sneeze into your own.

watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories right now brazil's health minister has quit after less than a month on the job nelson is the 2nd health minister to leave the post after criticizing president are all smiles handling at the pens and. more than 6000000 people in santiago are in lockdown after infection surge crossed chile's capital over the past 2 weeks under the new rules people would need a police permit to leave home. and u.s. president donald trump is threatening to veto a 3 trillion dollars support package for those affected by the pandemic it's been vetoed vote voted rather through the house of representatives. that weighs 23

migrant workers have been killed in northern india because their truck collided with another vehicle happened in the state of tar pradesh it is the latest and sudden involving laborers as they try to return home during a lockdown of the raman is live for us in india's capital new delhi so listen who are saying this is not an isolated incident what else can you tell us about what happened. well about this incident as you mentioned at least 23 migrant workers have been killed and 12 are in a critical condition the migrant workers were in a group of about 50 people who were traveling from the western state of raja in a launch truck carrying limestone and other construction material they will from the states of just going to be hot for the west bengal and we're just trying to get home like millions of other migrant workers around the country are losing their jobs the government in the state of the. crash happened has ordered action

against any truck drivers found to be transporting migrant workers and they've also ordered $500.00 buses to be stationed at each of the state's orders to transport them with is found to be walking with the borders with about 7 other states unfortunately though this isn't the only incident deadly incident involving migrant workers on saturday and the other 5 have died after the truck that they were travelling in overturned in the state of month it was going between the states of maharashtra and again the. just last week we had something like 16 migrant workers die when they fell asleep on train tracks in the states with. and something like 150 migrant workers have died at least 150 trying to get home since india's lockdown was announced and hundreds of thousands have walked. so

explain that to us why are they choosing to walk home or even hop on trucks as the government doing something to actually help them get home considering most transportation is shut down. so millions will stranded with no jobs or income when india is not was announced because these millions of people are daily wage earners and they need to work every single day to survive and the government did cancel all public transport there were protests around the country and after those protests the government did start special trains to transport migrant workers in may and in the last 2 weeks it's transported over a 1000000 of them but we have spoken to migrant workers who are walking hundreds of kilometers all with young children and they've told us that they just haven't been able to get on to get on one of these trains because there's just so many of them

the government has said that it's able to transport how ever many want to travel but that it's up to states to decide how many receive them at least one state one state cancelled trains off to pressure from industry who feared that they wouldn't have enough workers did go back on that decision after a lot of criticism other states say that they can't take. you know on ending numbers because they don't have the facilities to quarantine them quarantine them and so between all of these challenges what's happened is a major disaster a catastrophe for india's millions of migrant workers and only a traumatic situation for people that are already having such a hard time with us in new delhi thank you thailand has reported no new cases and no deaths as it starts to lift more restrictions starting sunday it's nightly curfew will be shorter and malls gyms and museums and some other businesses will be

allowed to reopen the government says it's concerned about a possible 2nd wave of infections. italy will reopen its borders to travelers from the e.u. institutions in zone countries on june 3rd those visitors will not be required to enter quarantine the government is also lifting restrictions on journeys within italy starting monday people can travel throughout their own regions and from early june they'll be allowed to go anywhere and the country doesn't have babies have been left stranded and ukraine because of restrictions to control the spread of crying over as the babies are born to surrogate mothers enter into to be collected by parents from the u.s. europe and elsewhere the being cared for at a hotel on the outskirts of the capital care in the past 3 weeks several countries have reported children being treated in hospital or dying from an inflammatory illness similar to the rare callous sakis disease world health organization says that studying a possible link to cope with 19 reports from europe and north america describe

a small number of children being admitted to do intensive care units with a model to system inflammatory condition we some future to see me learn to call us diseases and talks. initial reports hypothesize that these syndrom may be related to 19 it's critical toward a gentle and carefully kind of. syndrom to understand goes and to describe treatment interventions. sector in general intended to terrorists is the only way to defeat the virus is there international solidarity and unity. seeing the covert $1000.00 is so no friend drive the world these we are not able to fight effectively if items like the quote on the vitals and that we would need unity and solidarity to the fit the going on of unfortunately there is no unit and

that is not enough so that if the specially developing world we see no other vital spreading in africa in mathematica in some other parts of asia and unfortunately the east germans will be needed to help those companies defeat the vitals protect their populations and limits the emetic economic and social effects on them people those estimates of slowly that it's been very scarce and indeed that has been a division of the vision 1st of all different strategies of different countries not effective coordination of the actions to the feet to the vitals many states across the u.s. are reopening parts of their economies despite public health experts warning it could lead to a surge in deaths from covert 19 arizona as one such example but as rob i'll support some people are opposing the. demonstrators lay body bags on the grounds of the arizona state capitol in phoenix they are protesting republican gov doug do

sees decision to lift covert 19 restrictions on restaurants jim sent other businesses among the demonstrators practicing social distancing was retired health care safety officer shirley shape berger were frustrated with governors in scenes decision the body bags out there with the grim reaper was very difficult because we think it certainly doesn't happen to see says the time is right for gradual reopening this is a green light to continue going forward on the way out of this pandemic now this is not a green light to speed. this is a green light to proceed and we're going to proceed with caution president donald trump is pushing to reopen the u.s. economy despite warnings from health officials like dr anthony fauci but a large majority of people do not fully agree with do c. or trump a new poll shows more than 80 percent of arizona say they're not ready to return to

gyms restaurants hair salons and other public spaces those results are similar to nationwide polls more than 150 arizona business owners signed an online letter saying it is too soon to reopen arizona award winning chef and restaurant tour charlene badman says the risks to her customers and staff are far too great you know with possibility that. both say they're frustrated with the media and widespread misinformation it's folks. out there that don't believe this is is real and press is getting a lot of attention says the people who want to reopen opponents of early reopening fear it will lead to another outbreak which will then force officials to clamp down again magnifying the economic damage it's just all situation. and nobody wants their grandmothers and i would think. certainly not so they can go

mobile and to date more than 620 arizona nz have died from covert 19 and the number of new infections is rising set to reopen this weekend movie theaters rob reynolds al jazeera and yes apartment store chain j.c. penney passed economy latest corporate casualty of the pandemic and it's now the 4th major american retailer to file for bankruptcy protection a company has nearly 850 branches and employs 90000 people. there was a hong kong's protest movement have gathered at malls across the city address to blend into crowds and they sing and shout slogans and then disperse they get the movement's leaders are calling for an independent inquiry into police actions during last year's protests our friday a police watchdog released a report saying some changes were needed but the force had mostly stayed within

guidelines sir clarke is at one of those malls where she's been speaking to protesters. restrictions have eased in hong kong as a result of these protests the saudi again an anti government groups are targeting shopping centers in this weekend there are a number of rallies planned a police on here in the checking identification of some nice people present in this particular mood and also the security of telling people here that they must not gather in groups of more than i people of the like this is not living out they want to carry them to resign and then what china to stop interfering in her own political affairs they're also angry at the place accusing them of using excessive force and brutality during last year's protests just one of them just said to be dependent commission of inquiry which she's doing used to do so so just the attitude of the government and of most of the phone call is done that they don't want to listen to people that the government backed watched and defended the police actions last year during the anti-government protest and so this room for improvement within the police force but these places graveside that will continue

until i see justice and i also want to further investigation into the police force and what i described as excessive force used on the protest groups during last year's anti government demonstrations. forcing conflict in central african republic is threatening to plunge the country back into a full blown war fighting us intensify between ethnic groups and armed gangs and now a worker say they're unable to help people who are being displaced a major supports. this is the moment when fighters descended on the northern town of delhi the united nations says 30 people were killed at the start of the holy month of ramadan. 90000 others have been displaced including humanitarian workers if you had 9. in 8 i don't mean that. computers radio stuff. and most of those workers at ready for there are well meaning in traumatized and so

that makes the delivery of assistance to the people in. a very very in such fighting between armed ethnic militias has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee across the border into cameroon chad the democratic republic of congo and the republic of congo the joint nearly 700000 others forced from their hooves since the civil war broke out in the central african republic between selecta and on to belike and militias and the government in 2012 a peace agreement signed in june 2017 between the government and 13 of the 14000000 armed factions failed to stop the attacks it provides for disarmament demobilization and reintegration of fighters former fighters from the rebel groups along with other ethnic militias now operate in and control right areas like diamonds and gold are mind while some handed their weapons following the peace deal

many armed groups are not nearly 3 years later some demobilized fighters say their expectations of not been met but the government says it's doing everything it can to address those concerns in our thousands of combatants and we want them to do other things to be able to work that's what they are looking and while they don't believe they will we're not income that's what. experts say the violence in the central african republic has the potential to destabilize the entire region you certainly might see refugees. the country and you certainly might see. the banditry that you see in. other than a tree that you see and. certainly can see it happening and you certainly i think you would definitely. 'd actually see

or i think we're going to see or trafficking especially you know the presidential election is settled for december and tribal loyalties and power struggles often determine who leads the country many humanitarian workers fear the ongoing attacks and affect the outcome of that vote and if the result fails to end the violence that will have a devastating impact on millions of people already facing poverty and heart how many trees al jazeera. and we shall carry these are the headlines right now on al-jazeera brazil's health minister as quit after less than a month on the job now is the 2nd health minister to leave the post after criticizing president terrible sonars handling of the pandemic i view the future discord of life is made of choices and today i chose to leave i tell you that i

give the best of me during the period i spent here it's not a simple thing to lead a ministry like this one in such a difficult time. or than 6000000 people in santiago are in lockdown after and factions search across chile's capital over the past 2 weeks under the new rules people will need a police permit to leave home. and mexico has reported its largest single day rise in corona virus infections health officials confirm more than 2400 new cases on friday the president is urging people to maintain social distancing especially when many return to work next week as president donald trump is threatening to veto a 3 trillion dollars support package for those affected by the pandemic it's been voted through the house of representatives at least $23.00 migrant workers have been killed in northern india when their truck collided with another vehicle happened in the state of bihar protest that is the latest and to dent and evolving laborers as they try to return home during the lockdown thailand has reported no

new cases and no deaths as it starts to lift more restrictions starting sunday its nightly curfew will be shorter and malls the chains and museums and some other businesses will be allowed to reopen the government says it is wary of a possible 2nd wave of infections. italy will reopen its borders to travelers from the e.u. and change in zone countries on june 3rd as visitors will not be required to enter quarantine the government is also lifting restriction and on journeys with italy. dozens of babies have been left stranded and ukraine because of restrictions to control the spread of chronic virus the babies are born to surrogate mothers and are due to be collected by parents from the u.s. . and europe rather and elsewhere so the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera more news to come bulletin for you the top of the hour counting the cost is up next. what impact will call big 19 on the drop in the oil

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