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up the push for a global inquiry into how the pandemic began china says let's wait until it's all over. also $550000000000.00 fund to revive business in the e.u. germany and france joined hands to fight the economic fallout of the pandemic. and desperate for food and medical aid hundreds defy quarantine orders in chile's capital. to the program he touted it as a game changer when the coronavirus pandemic began now president trump has revealed that he is taking a regular dose of an unproven drug us government health experts warned last month the potentially fatal side effects from hydroxy chloroquine which has long been used against malaria but donald trump says that he's taking a pill every day after requesting it from the white house doctor. the front line

workers many many are taking it i happened to be taking it i happened to be take it or actually forgot to take it in hydroxy for a point when right now yeah when a couple weeks ago started to get it because i think it's kind of had a lot of good stories and if it's not good i'll tell you right doctor to get hurt by it it's been around for 40 years from malaria for a loop as for other things i take it frontline workers take it a lot of doctors take excuse me my car has more from the white house. well it was in a word utterly astounding president trump indicating that he started taking the drug a week and a half ago this sort of will appear following a letter from an unnamed doctor in westchester in upstate new york who tout the use of the drug in this letter to president trump which he quoted in the course of this news conference now it's very important to note that the food and drug

administration the f.d.a. has cautioned against the use of hydroxy chloroquine this it did about 2 weeks ago so president trump by his own admission started taking the drug few days after the f.d.a. his own if da advised extreme caution in terms of using it for the treatment of coronavirus and also saying it should only be used in a hospital situation or in the clinical trial now the f.d.a. recommendation followed a report by the u.s. veterans health administration which did take a look into a small study in the use of eye drops a quarter chloroquine it found that the mortality rate actually increased with people using the drugs in its reported said that 27.8 percent of those who were being treated for corona virus with hydroxy chloroquine the death rate was 27 percent when a zinc additive was added to the hydroxy quite

a clerical in that death rate dropped to $22.00 a but those who were not given either of these drugs or the cocktail the death rate was heart of that 11 percent so it was there as a result of this report along with another number of other global studies that the f.d.a. made this recommendation a recommendation which president trump has just completely trampled over. well trump has consistently pushed hydroxy chloroquine as a treatment the drug is usually used to treat or prevent malaria and dramatic diseases such as arthritis but there's no concrete scientific evidence so far that it can help fight the coronavirus studies in france and china have found it wasn't effective in treating patients with covert 19 in fact experts have warned against it saying it could cause heart attacks last month both the european and u.s. drug regulators said it should only be used in hospitals and under close supervision well lawrence gostin is

a professor of medicine at georgetown university says studies of the drug is more likely to cause increased risk to coronavirus patients. well as prescribed mostly as an extreme malaria medication but there's been some interest in the scientific community about its use as a potential antiviral agent that would affect. beneficially treat 19. unfortunately done studies and thus far the studies of suggested there is no evidence that it's effective and that there's some good evidence that it can enhance risks including the risk of death so this is something that the u.s. drug regulator the f.d.a.

has warned against. the medical advisor to the white house task force on the problems iris chinese are she has urged the public not to do it. and so the president is is creating mixed message i should say were another cent this is supposed to be a prescription medication and there's no indication that the president's position as a shrewd heavily prescribed although the president seems to imply that the that there is physicians said that well it's ok well ok is not good enough if there's evidence it needs to be prescribed. for the response or covert 19 is becoming increasingly political have calls for an inquiry into how it began and how it's being handled chinese president xi jinping told a conference run by the world health organization the question should wait until

the pandemic is under control our diplomatic editor james bays has more. it's a time when countries have been concentrating on their national responses to the virus and with tensions between china and the u.s. growing the un secretary general sounded frustrated his video link from new york to geneva wasn't working well but delegates heard him condemn the lack of global cooperation result one of you does express your understanding varied he may have some talk of solidarity but very little unity in our response to cope with 19 countries have followed different sometimes contradictory strategies and we are all paying a high price for this many countries have ignored the recommendations of the world health organization as a result the virus has spread throughout the world and is now heading towards southern countries where it could have even more devastating effect and we risk new peaks and waves many nations want a full inquiry into the response to the virus including its origins in the city of

. the issue has become increasingly politicized with president trump suggesting it may have been manmade in his address china's president xi supported the idea of an inquiry but with very clear limits. that china supports the idea of a comprehensive review of the global response to covered 19 so that it's brought under control to collect experiences and address deficiencies but he wants the world health organization up in charge of any inquiry and it's the w.h.o. under its leader dr ted ross that's been condemned by the trumpet ministration for its poor response and in particular being too close to china in an apparent attempt to conceal this outbreak at least one member state made a mockery of their transparency obligations with tremendous cost for the entire world we saw that w.h.o. failed at its core mission of information sharing and transparency when member

states do not act in good faith. this cannot ever happen again the status quo is intolerable w.h.o. must change and it must become far more transparent and far more accountable what we're seeing play out in geneva is likely to have reverberations around the world the growing antagonism between the u.s. and china is compounded by the fact that other major nations don't want to take sides because the 2 countries have so much economic clout and that's a recipe for global diplomatic deadlock james bowie's al-jazeera at the united nations. the us secretary of state might pompei or says the decision to exclude taiwan from the world health organization's annual assembly further damages the world health organization's credibility taiwan's foreign minister joseph were accuses the w.h.o. of yielding to pressure from the chinese government beijing considers taiwan a breakaway province and has long objected to its participation in international

organizations as a sovereign state they tell you one woman the new sort of the ministry of foreign affairs expresses deep regret that the world health organization secretariat has yielded to pressure from the chinese government and continues to disregard the right to health for the 23000000 people of taiwan so you don't want to know who the people of taiwan abhorred the 2 faced behavior of the chinese government which claims to care for their health and welfare while actually seeking to deprive them of their rights and health. france and germany are proposing a relief fund of over $540000000000.00 to help europe recover from the pandemic their leaders held a video conference to discuss the initiative on monday the proposal suggests the bloc members borrow the funds together as a group now there have been differences in europe over how to push forward with an economic relief plan and the touch of butler has more from the french capital. well the leaders of france and germany say that the aim of this 545000000000 dollar

recovery fund is to try and help revive certain economic sectors in the european union certain member states countries regions that have been particularly badly affected by the coronavirus pandemic now the idea is that this money would be bored of the international markets now both emanuel mark kroll and angela merkel said that it was absolutely fundamental that the european union come together at this time and show solidarity with some member states that have really struggled over the past weeks and months and will continue to do so in the future because of course the coronavirus pandemic is far from over in many ways even though we have seen the numbers of infections and cases drop over the past few days in some european countries well this initiative has been welcomed by their heads in the of the e.u. in brussels by the commissioner and the head of the e.u. council who say it's very much in line with their own thinking as they are formulating their own strategy it is also been welcomed on the international

financial markets because we've seen global stocks. as a professional research fellow at the london school of economics know he thinks a successful finance would ease some of the political tensions in the e.u. over the pandemic. there's been vacillation going on for several weeks now european level about trying to agree on a recovery fund of some description and so far all that's been done by the european level is to create new loan instruments where this new fund differs if it goes ahead as france and germany propose is that it will give direct grants to regions and sectors which are in difficulty and that is game changing because it means that there's the possibility of a region of italy or a region of spain or an industry receiving actual cash and not having to repay it to a neighbor to recover from the co it 19 locked up. it's not yet it done deep in it

will face several obstacles because broadly speaking northern europe has been against such a fund and southern europe has been for it france sits on the borderline between north and south germany traditionally has been very reluctant to engage in this kind of spending but seems now to have agreed that it will be up to the germans and the french to persuade their partners in particular the dutch the finns and the scandinavians that this is something that's worth doing well still ahead here on al-jazeera a storm over opening schools in the united kingdom why politicians are struggling to get teachers back to class and the u.s. government says it has evidence of who was behind the fatal shooting at a military air base in december those stories after the break.

we've got shabby rain making its way away from japan away from the korean peninsula and most mobile flow to our weather at the moment so we have still got some rather wet weather to come into north korea south korea some showers long spells of brain is this area of low pressure just slides out of the yellow sea pushes across into the sea of japan still a few showers around on shoes type of to fry discuss coming back into tokyo temperatures around $21.00 celsius warming up but as we go on into wednesday more the west sunshine and shasta still a few showers there to northern parts of honshu pushing up into parts guys come back a behind further south because showers into taiwan into the southwest of china hong kong still seeing a few showers temperatures here around 29 degrees celsius we'll see the usual crop of showers nothing remarkable there across southeast asia heat of the day showers bring up some more in the way of sunshine and showers and a similar picture as we go on into whedon stay meanwhile across the by

a single because cycling on palm that makes its way further north was huge massive cloud shang up on this one bringing some very strong winds weakening now but some very heavy rain pushing into it isha into west bengal and into the western side of bangladesh. as we embrace new technologies rarely do we stop to ask what is the price of this progress what happened was people started getting sick but there was a small group of people that began to think that maybe this was related to the chemical exposure and the job and investigation reveals how even the smallest devices have deadly environmental and health costs we think ok will send mary waste to china but we have to remember that air pollution travels around the globe death by design on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching elvis there with me so robin a reminder of our top stories president all trump has revealed he's been taking a regular dose of the unproven drug hydroxy chloroquine to prevent krohn virus after requesting it from the white house doctor government health experts warned last month of its potentially fatal side effects. france and germany are proposing a relief fund of over $540000000000.00 to help the e.u. recover from the pandemic the proposal suggests member states borrow the funds together in an effort to ease divisions over financing initiatives. and the u.s. has accused the world health organization of allowing the coronavirus pandemic to

spin out of control health secretary alex as are told the u.n. agency assembly that the w.h.o. its failure to obtain information the world needed has cost many lives. we switched to latin america which is emerging as a global coronavirus hotspot crumbling health systems struggling economies and political divisions are making matters worse in some communities mexico has begun a gradual easing of its lockdown despite its number of deaths and infections continue to rise steadily the restrictions will be relaxed in phases now the mayor of brazil's largest cities are powerless says its hospitals are 90 percent full and could run out of space in 2 weeks brazil has recorded over 16000 deaths more than any other in latin america combined but president. continues to rally support to end the lock down and reopen the economy well in chile there have been violent

protests in one of sunday argo's poorest neighborhoods hundreds of protesters broke quarantine orders to demand food and medical aid well our latin america to lucien newman is in the chilean capital. what's happening is that what authorities had been hoping would not occur has just begun the president had last night addressed the nation calling on chileans to be patient to understand or rather to let them know that the government understood that they were facing a dire situation poverty unemployment hunger in some cases and promising that the government would step in immediately to help in fact it promised to distribute 2500000 boxes of food as soon as possible but clearly in the neighborhood of any here in santiago which is one of the poorest neighborhoods in the metropolitan region this was not enough or certainly not soon enough they came out in mass to protest throwing rocks at riot police who responded with water cannon and tear gas

scenes very very similar or very reminiscent of the demonstrations that we've been seeing in chile for social reforms that began in october and that only ended when the pandemic began or at least they were put on pause if you like so this is the problem though the real fear here is that this could snowball and be replicated in many many other poor neighborhoods now keep in mind that in this particular area they have been under quarantine for more than a month that means that the people living there haven't been able to work for a month they've been left without any money and they're in a far worse shape perhaps than in other parts of the city that were just put under lock down on friday. and as you mentioned restrictions are being relaxed in mexico social distancing measures will be gradually lifted by june the 1st one will repel it has more from mexico city. here in mexico monday was the 1st day of this new plan to ease restrictions and to lift lock downs but i want to point to some

statistics on sunday the government's own records pointed to 5177 deaths as of sunday it's an increase of 102 deaths from the day before now this is significant because only a week ago the government here in mexico had had forecasted the height of contagion peak contagion for the pandemic and said that now would be the time that restrictions would be lifted of course knowing that that we have not reached the height of contagion that in fact the mexico was still on the upward curve is actually quite troubling the big question right now is how is this going to work this is going to be gradual on a $33.00 phases per se companies and businesses and manufacturers that are going to be reopening will be doing so only if they meet a certain criteria being able to guarantee that their employees can be meet a certain social distancing requirement making sure that their employees that their employees have personal protective gear the big question right now is over the

automotive sector the manufacturing sector specifically along mexico's northern border with the united states these are manufacturers that are under tremendous amount of pressure from the united states to reopen mexico has june 1st as this target date to reopen the national economy but it is expected that many of these manufacturers will reopen even before that date well in the united kingdom the government has expanded coronavirus testing to anyone over the age of 5 with symptoms but follows weeks of criticism over the number of daily tests being conducted across the country the prime minister has such a tug is daily capacity of 200000 by the end of the month. well schools in england her are set to reopen on june the 1st they've been closed for 2 months to curb the spread of covert 19 even though this schools will only be able to certain year groups some people feel the opening is happening too quickly roy chalons has more from london. for 2 months now the u.k.

schools have been quiet closed but for the few children of essential workers all other kids have been housebound waiting out the viral storm looking for brighter days and they might be close for england at least a week ago the government's task or leaders like steve chalke with safety welcoming some year groups back on june the 1st in some schools you didn't and you saw one way system using one set of stairs to go up another set of stairs to come down and different corridors for moving in the different directions you set out markings on the floor of 2 mates is so with think in all of that we've got enough people for every staff member or and and child the plan is for the youngest 2 primary school years and the oldest to go back 1st and others would follow later so head teachers have been scrambling to find ways they can safely open school gates to more pupils but a week of frantic talks between teachers unions and the government still hasn't convinced

everyone who thinks this is all happening too fast ministers appointed to other european countries where classes have started again portugal went back on monday but to english councils liverpool and hartley have both said they are still too many local coronavirus cases to safely open schools on the government's timetable scotland and wales say they won't reopen yet either even teachers organizations that are now on board are still extremely anxious and ultimately what we would say is that the decision around opening and closing a school wrists with the teacher and a governing board all the trustees and we would definitely support them if in their judgement they could safely do that and they need more time to plan and towards it there are warnings though that the longer schools the sharks the more poor kids are affected by disparities in home schooling kids from the richest families are spending 75 minutes a day more on educational activities than those in the poorest of them. please if

you take the 34 school days between the 23rd of march when school is closed for the 1st time and the 1st of june when the 1st kids could start to go back to school that out adds up to more than a week and a half of full time time in school but the same institute of fiscal studies report found that well fewer than half of all parents are ready to send their children back to school given the choice even if schools in england do open on june the 1st classrooms may remain mostly empty rory chalons al-jazeera london. to asia where india's financial hub is facing an acute shortage of hospital beds mumbai is not building a makeshift hospital to cope with a soaring number of covert 19 infections doctors say patients have been falls to share beds they also report bodies left lying in wards because morgues a so fall mumbai is the worst affected city in india with more than $20000.00 reported cases. well the country has extended the world's biggest lock down by

another 2 weeks but ease some restrictions markets are now allowed to open for the 1st time in 8 weeks and travel between states is permitted in personal vehicles and buses despite the number of cases continuing to rise elizabeth peral a reporter from new delhi. chanakya made it is preparing to open his toy store and car market for the 1st time in nearly 2 months it's in one of the most expensive parts of the indian capital but the highest rent our sales are you don't know and the government is saying we have the big salary payments we have to make you feel that you are enters are so high income market we cannot survive making this absolute. the indian government announced on sunday night that all markets are allowed to open but it's for states to decide the rules car market is one of new delhi's well known and usually busiest while shops selling essential items have remained open most of its $150.00 stores and bars and restaurants have been closed

for the past 8 weeks at an estimated cost of nearly $40000000.00. from tuesday shops in delhi's markets must take turns opening on alternate days to keep the number of market goes down the president of the car market traders association says while all shop owners want their businesses to function 7 days a week the pandemic isn't far from everyone's mind because of the economy. coming back. but as far as over those concerned we have a little concerned about it because we need to make people understand what actually we. the indian government has allowed the easing of restrictions in certain areas despite the number of cases reaching nearly 100000. delhi's chief minister says the government has used the past 8 weeks to prepare the health care system for any rise in the number of cases as more activities are allowed to go on like you start up

and what we have to learn to live with corona will be there in our lives to keep going we can't have a permanent lockdown. elsewhere in the country barbershops and salons have also opened and the government announced that people will be allowed to travel in private vehicles and buses between states that agree to the move the latest easing of restrictions has led to traffic on the roads for the 1st time in months but while many people are now able to move around outside the situation remains the same for india's millions of migrant workers who've been stranded and are still waiting at transport hubs trying to get home elizabeth pratham al-jazeera new delhi . to africa now where the nigerian military says it's killed 20 boko haram fighters it says it inserted a convoy that was on its way to attack villages in baghdad in the borno state line government troops were injured in the operation security forces in iraq say a rocket has been fired into the heavily fortified green zone in the capital

baghdad it is an empty house not far from the u.s. embassy no casualties have been reported u.s. president donald trump has defended his decision to fire the state department's inspector general saying secretary of state might pompei i asked him to do so democratic lawmakers said on monday that might have fired the official because he was investigating u.s. military sales to saudi arabia congressional aides have also said the government watchdog was investigating whether mr pompei use staffers for personal errands the president dismissed those suggestions and defended his secretary of state. the u.s. department of justice on the f.b.i. say they found evidence that a saudi military cadet was in contact with al qaida before he shot and killed 3 people on a u.s. naval base last particle haim as the latest from washington d.c. officials now say this was an attack on u.s. soil coordinated with the help of al qaeda last december saudi arabian cadet

lieutenant mohammad saeed al some ronnie opened fire on the pensacola military base where he was training leaving 3 u.s. service members dead and 8 injured al qaeda in the arabian peninsula initially claimed responsibility but in a news conference monday u.s. officials confirmed that blaming the many months of delays and apple refusing to help them unlock his phones in the months before the attack while he was here among us he talked with a.q. a.p. about his plans and tactics taking advantage of the information he acquired here to assess how many people he could try to kill he was meticulous in his planning he made pocket cam videos as he cased his classroom building the u.s. attorney general also announced the information led to a military strike but gave few other details indeed the information from the phones has already proved invaluable in protecting the american people. a

counterterrorism operation targeting a q a p operative al maliki one of the ranis overseas associates was recently conducted in yemen after the shooting officials quickly discovered had left many social media post that should have raised red flags but were missed while they tried to put the focus on the dispute with the technology companies it's likely that members of congress are going to be asking more questions about exactly how this individual was able to have so much communication with people in yemen well being a part of the military training program with access to sensitive u.s. military bases. al-jazeera washington. because they're obese the whole rob a reminder of our top stories president donald trump has revealed he's been taking

a regular dose of the unproven drug hydroxy chloroquine to prevent coronavirus after requesting it from the white house doctor government health experts warned last month of its potentially fatal side effects the frontline workers many many are taking it i happened to be taking it i happened to be taking. her to actually court objectively and hydroxy to our right having a. couple of weeks ago started to get it because i think it's kind of had a lot of good stories and if it's not good i'll tell you right doctor to get heard but it's been around for 40 years from malaria for lupus for other things i take it frontline workers take it a lot of doctors take excuse me france and germany are proposing a relief fund of over 540000000000 dollars to help the e.u. recover from the pandemic the proposals address member states borrow the funds together in an effort to ease divisions over financing initiatives. the u.s.

has accused the world health organization of allowing the current virus pandemic to spin out of control health secretary alex as are told the un's agency global health assembly that the w h o's failure to obtain information the world needed cost many lives in chile there have been violent protests in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the capital santiago hundreds of protesters broke coronavirus quarantine orders to demand food and medical aid. mexico has begun a gradual easing of its lockdown despite rising deaths and infections the 1st stage allows regions with no cases of the virus to reopen with no restrictions social distancing measures will be gradually lifted by june the 1st the f.b.i. says they say the cadet who killed 3 people on a military base in florida last year had contacts with al qaeda it also says it was able to access his phone despite a lack of support from apple those were the headlines and back with more news in half an hour next it's inside story with bernard smith.

could the pandemic threaten the survival of africa's wildlife game reserves that rely on tourism are running out of money and the poaches plea will decades of conservation efforts be lost this is inside story. out of there welcome to the program clock africa's wildlife is one of the continent's biggest attractions game reserves and national parks they welcome millions of visitors every year who want to experience wild animals close up they

rely on that revenue to pay for the.