biggest stunt but the industry stunt performers are unknown and under one of the mates meets the name and women are risking it all for the bright lights of bollywood on al-jazeera 'd. an independent investigation is ordered into the world health organization is handling of the corona virus pandemic. that i'm a clock designs are alive the halls are coming up libya's internationally recognized government make small gains retakes another town held by the warlords and before have to. strain a relationship to be as syrian government seizes the assets of president bashar assad's cousin and billionaire businessman. activists in argentina call on the

government for help after more than a 1000 coronavirus cases importance there it's. so the united states is facing a growing backlash favorites threat to public hold funding to the w.h.o. that's after president on the trump said the organizations missteps have come out on extreme cost and i think they've done a. very sad job in the last period of time and again the united states pays them $450000000.00 a year china pays them $38000000000.00 a year and they're a puppet of china they are china centric to put it nicely but they're a puppet of china. well russia has become the latest global power to condemn trump's threats it's a deputy foreign minister has been quoted as saying it is against the breaking of the w.h.o.

for another member's political preferences earlier china accused the us of attempting to avoid responsibility for the handling of its own outbreak it said the trucks remarks were meant to criticize china's response efforts made the u.s. tries to use china as an issue to shirk responsibility and bargain over its international obligations to the w.h.o. this is a miscalculation and the u.s. has picked the wrong target and they want. the u.s. leaders open later is full of hints perhaps and maybes and tries to use specious methods to mislead the public and achieve the goals of smearing china's anti virus if it's an shoot responsibility for the united states on insufficient response this is futile and always comes as member states voted for an independent investigation into the response to the pandemic and that's something the head of the organization has welcomed amid criticism from donald trump well we'll get reaction from our white house cross one of that can be held at just a member 1st let's go to i said reg in london with more on this. inquiry and it one

unanimous support as it. yes it did which is pretty remarkable no objections from the 194 members but it didn't always seem that way when this resolution was initially proposed before the assembly before the assembly actually took place it was proposed by a stray yet that they wanted an independent investigation to look at the origins of the virus that angered china because although they were mentioned by name they felt that beijing was being targeted and that led to a bit of a diplomatic spat between china and australia but this resolution was put forward by the european union it had to back 144 co-sponsors and china didn't object not trying to says that they support an investigation although they wanted to take place once the virus has been brought under control and that the resolution calls for an independent impartial and comprehensive review into the response to the

virus including but not limited to the olds performance also once an investigation this resolution also calls for an investigation in to look at these zoonotic sources of the origins of the virus and how it transferred from animals to humans then undoubtedly they will be looking at china for that now the director general dr ted ross has said that he will initiate the investigation at the appropriate moment meanwhile we have the ultimatum from the us president about withdrawing funds unless the w.h.o. come up with some concrete repast. yes president donald trump wrote this letter he published it on twitter he's given that 30 days although he hasn't said what he wants to see in those 30 days old don't know what he wants to see in 30 days but the deadly hate you'll have defended themselves against allegations leveled at them by the united states say that they warned the

world early on in early january of the risk of human to human transmission that they declared the virus a public health emergency of international concern one day before the united states announced a partial ban on flights from china now said that this investigation will be transparent and it will be accountable but over the last 2 days there have been calling for solidarity and unity but also more funding but now they're facing threats from the u.s. president donald trump to have a large chunk of their funding cut thanks very much indeed as a break in london let's cross the atlantic to. the white house a president i think on his way or is that capitol hill to meet with republicans and the been saying anything any more. well we did hear from the u.s. president just before he left for the u.s. capitol to meet with republicans for a luncheon the u.s.

president for his part was asked a little bit more about his threat to permanently cut funding to the world health organization the u.s. president saying at the white house that essentially the world health organization in his view needs to clean up its act he said he said that his letter outlining his issues with the body are is detailed and long but essentially his argument is much like we've heard him with respect to speaking about the trade relationship with china the u.s. president saying that the world health organization is not fair to the united states and if that behavior doesn't change then he says the united states won't be involved anymore it really is very similar to the talk that we heard from the u.s. president on the campaign trail for example when he said that the trade relationship with china was unfair he used strong arm tactics in order to try and achieve structural change putting in place ask relating trade war with tariffs on chinese goods into the united states that we should point out hurt many of the people that supported him in winning the election including farmers in 2016 so the

u.s. president interestingly as he was talking about aid to farmers who have been hurt by covert 19 made these comments here at the white house just now and we expect that he may say even more on capitol hill but the bottom line is the argument from this white house and this president is that the american taxpayers footing the bill is the main contributor to the world health organization the united states is now experiencing economic carnage because the u.s. president says that china and also the world health organization did not do enough to warn the united states about corona virus so he is encouraged this review the united states or u.s. mission to the u.n. says that they are looking for a complete understanding of the virus and the timeline and again the u.s. president not afraid of using sort of punitive measures saying that this 30 day review if he doesn't like the outcome those cuts to the world health organization in terms of the u.s. contribution monetary only will be permanent when we heard much from the girl

macross about this that will be the perspective on. well we have to remember that the money on capitol hill is controlled by both republicans and democrats. democrats for their part have been very critical as have many in capitol hill with respect to the fact that they feel that the world health organization is a valuable global body it's well respected it's one that many turn to in times of pandemic in times of crisis and this is not the time to be threatening to up an end kind of the global order of things but again the u.s. president doesn't seem to mind up ending tradition in fact he's kind of become known as the disrupter in chief still we've heard from many top democrats chuck schumer in the senate now too closely the leader in the house of representatives who are gravely concerned about the united states perhaps not moving forward as

a part of this body contributing to this body and feeling that that could have an enormous impact on americans moving forward but for now this is what the u.s. president is threatening and he says he's going to make good on that promise. but separate from the white house committee how could. i let him know from babbitt she was a political analyst of the russian state news agency ross you know and he explains why russia is being so vocal about this. the russian the representative from their walled health organization greta sized they us removed saying that it was counterproductive and had the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov said that of course won't help that when i say she needs reform but based reform should be based on facts not on the more since it should not be used for political means right now the impression i share is that mr trump has failed the situation with corona virus in the united states is bad its wars and then in the country that united states

considers its enemies its wars then in china its was not in iran its was not in russia so mr drum decided to make the world health organization escapable that's not the right way to go because we need international cooperation maybe it's not perfect now but to reduce it to 0 would be just to do what you russia would of course try to respond collectively because despite their very core style a q q a from the european union and from do they the states the russian elite has been trying to cooperate with the west at least for the last 35 years since the war but to have came to power it was a never ending process of russia making overtures to the west making concessions of course we cannot sustain the wall council when i was asian for all money but if there is a collective action to prop up the wall calendar when i was asian to come up with

something that would link international corporation lore effective russia would be a willing participant. libya is un recognized government is continuing its offensive against forces loyal to the warlord who before have to in the west stop the seizing a major base but enough from. the latest. driving through the streets of baghdad and back government forces showing that they are now in control of the small town southwest of tripoli. but i am. another victory against warlords khalifa haftar us forces in less than 24 hours what are. the roads to bed and connect the air base to other cities they control near the border they retook what they itself on monday a significant loss to have tiles forces who had been using it as their headquarters in western libya since 2014 planes carrying out say strikes against the u.n.

backed government in tripoli throughout from here good to have the kind of hard. work but this time it wasn't their planes the took off it was their fighters moving behind some of them i mean a shock. but tough times spokesman was downplaying this loss bellman. been pulling out strategic equipment and heavy military gear from the base 3 months ago we pulled out the jet fighters and their ammunition and spear parts only yesterday orders were given for personnel to withdraw under cover the withdrawal was successful because we moved the personnel and old weaponry and ammunition we have on planes and we will recapture the. last of their air base means have to us forces no longer have a foothold southwest of tripoli and it's paved the way for government forces to focus on taking back the town hall now. last remaining stronghold in western libya and a crucial supply hub for his forces to parts of the capital they've suffered major losses in recent weeks. the more than

a year long battle to take control of tripoli has killed hundreds of people. so facilities have been destroyed at a time when libya is trying to control the crowd in a virus outbreak is the most vulnerable to continue to suffer civilian refugee migrants health care facilities are under attack. civilian infrastructure is attacked well our message to all the parties continues to be the same which is stop the violence with the guns and risk to the political process. and as i say the balance of power is shifting away from have to us forces and despite them to say even if it's a holiday mocking into the fasting month of ramadan just around the horn of it looks like there are no plans by the science to stop the fighting. it out of his it or to elicit it where the prime minister has resigned after months of

pressure over allegations of involvement to murder thomas de bonis a coalition fell apart in parliament last monday he was asked to step down by the end of this week to make way for a new government to run is suspected of conspiring to murder his former wife his current wife has been formally charged with murder both deny any involvement in death. has more details on what to bunny said and what will happen next. we know that thomas to buy me a formally handed in his resignation to king lacy the 3rd the king could ask him to stay on as a kid take a prime minister until a new prime minister has been sworn in the person will likely be finance minister by george he's 58 years old he used to work for the i.m.f. and he seems to have support from people who like to buy any when it comes to the army political analysts say that they will likely remain neutral they haven't really had to deal with him but it's affected or expected that they will try and support him so bonnie has been resisting going for a while and he say this is not a resignation he simply retiring because he's too old but people in the city know

that he's been under a lot of pressure to resign because of his alleged involvement in the murder of his former wife he had approached the constitutional court early us saying that his argument was that a sitting prime minister cannot be charged for anything now that of course will change once a new prime minister has been sworn in some political and the sitting thing that the reason why divine has told us all along was because he is trying to organize some kind of good exit package for him when he leaves maybe try to take the people around him and also try and get immunity from prosecution but all this will become clear to the new prime minister has been sworn in that could be late on tuesday or possibly even wednesday. from.

hallow the dry and dusty resists to blogs for iraq without a strong as it was and there is cloud the satellite pictures would hint maybe enough moisture in the upper atmosphere or middle atmosphere of the suffused dorms in the high ground of western saudi or western young that's true of most part is dry cation shot in iran and coming into turkey are outside the area where it's going to be halt and dry now for weeks on end with humidity playing the biggest cost and how it feels in doha $34.00 humidity is going to be the norm i suspect for quite a while it's much dry heat and high heat in baghdad and in fact to the west of that through the levant and israel is one case in point we've had a heat wave it's still $37.00 in jerusalem the forecast on thursday that most of

those off goes looking fairly quiet you have got grazing cloud with the current system sitting over its least that means cooler weather in tunis and tripoli in comparison with recently woman weather in robotic ational shasta and the atlas mountains otherwise north korea is fairly dry there are seasonal showers moving slowly north of course they stretch into the highlands the back to nigeria and that's why it's yearly or at the moment it looks like places like banjo should and will stay dry. eyes only test. and trace frank assessments why is italy struggling to cope with the number coronavirus failure to take really aggressive action behind you per informed opinion it's going to be much more challenging in a place like haiti where there is one ventilator 3000000 people in depth analysis of the day's global headlines india done enough to knit the spread of their own of

ours in the inside story on al-jazeera. org. but again you're watching her mind about top stories this hour and russia has criticized threats by the united states to permanently halt funding to the president of trump says the organization is handling of coronavirus it's come at an extreme cost. to serve as prime minister has resigned after months of pressure over murder allegations tamas to bonnie's coalition fell apart last monday he was asked to step down by the end of this week. libya's un backed government is continuing its offensive against will to leave i have to fight since after taking control of

the what based on monday jan a forces now say they have retaken the towns. and the u.n. security council has been holding a virtual session on libya automatic it's ajay's base has more now from the united nations. from the very strong speech that we heard from stephanie williams she's the acting special representative of the u.n. in libya she gave a grim assessment of the situation she said weapons were flooding into the country foreign involvement was growing mercenaries on both sides and the main victims have been the civilian population of libya she said since the 1st though april there have been $248.00 civilian casualties that's an 89 percent increase on the 1st 3 months of the year and she said the vos majority of those casualties work because of the actions of the forces of the general half she said that any crimes on

international law should be brought to justice she also said she was fearful things were going to get much worse as we survey the carnage rot by almost 15 months of unrelenting violence of the year i believe that we have reached another turn point in the conflict conflict. from what we're witnessing in terms of the massive influx of weaponry the crittenden's and mercenaries to the 2 sides the only conclusion that we can draw is that this war will intensify and broaden him. devastating consequences for the libyan people as the foreign intervention increases the libyans themselves are getting lost in the mess their voices crowded out we must not let live the yes or when so where is the diplomacy the un representative stephanie williams said she thought it was regrettable the

announcement by general how after the end of april that he considers the political agreement that they had been trying to pursue dead and considered that he had a mandate to rule himself said much more positive was the news coming from the g.n.a.t. and prime minister saraj that he was open now to talks full talks on the situation in libya the syrian government has seized assets belonging to president bashar al assad's cousin write him a clue for one of syria's most prominent business men syria's finance minister says the seizure of my troops assets is necessary to protect money owed to the government on likely if has been seen as a pillar of the syrian government and is heavily financed says war efforts for the past 9 years before the conflict began in early 2011 he controlled 60 percent of the economy and that allowed him to build an independent power base apart from syria tell his business empire ranges from real estate to construction and oil

trading there have been reports of strained ties between me and assad the president announced an anti-corruption campaign in october while rami curry is a senior public policy fellow and johns professor of journalism at the american university of beirut and he explains why i think it's government has turned on the tube. most credible and now assists that i've heard from syrians who know the system and have studied syria for years is that as it is passing through a very delicate moment where he's essentially won the war 'd against the people who try to overthrow him he's trying to do reconstruction and rebuilding his got some upping up to do with it live in other places but he's also got russia and iran looking over his shoulders and there is hopefully they hope they'll be a lot of reconstruction contracts that will also be used to develop more patronage and loyalty he's lost huge amounts of money because of the regional economic

situation because of the war and the pandemics impact the lebanon's collapse economically is a big hit so he's got serious serious economic stresses at a moment when he needs a lot of money to start the reconstruction process and reassert his central authority over the entire country and his independence from foreign patrons so he's trying to juggle 6 or 7 different balls at the same time and for all of them he needs money. india and bangladesh are moving millions of people to safer ground as they brace for the most powerful cycling to hit into think age cycle is expected to make landfall late on tuesday night time a challenger reports now from dhaka thank you this is the 1st super cycle on farming over the bay of bengal in more than 20 years. people living in the coastal areas are worried cyclonic approaches the coast of bangladesh. is in a hurry to collect their belongings and rush to

a shelter. we are worried about the cycle and now we're preparing to go to the shelter the situation isn't good we're not sure what will happen to us all commercial ships fishing boats and trawlers over the bay of bengal and deep sea have been advised to take shelter. volunteers across the coastal areas are warning people of the dangers and arjen them to go to a cycle in shelters the bangladeshi government says it has prepared shelters in coastal the stakes for more than $5000000.00 people but maintaining social distancing will be difficult in densely packed shelters with limited space. we've already seen it rise to the relevant cycle in shelters provided money baby and dry food as well as food for livestock we've doubled the number of cycling shelters to around 12078 in order to maintain social distancing. if the storm makes landfall in the low lying delta there is also the potential for a major storm surges perhaps even as high as 9 meters you're going to only once

additional if the water surge happens and the level goes up we have enough materials and manpower ready to deal with the situation along with the help from the district administration but many people along the coast say that they know better from experience. like the rest of the world we're worried about coronavirus and in the midst of all this there's a high tide in the ocean and the area could get flooded if it stays like this it poses a great danger to us. the double track of corporate 19 and the cyclon is particularly worrying for disadvantaged people in coastal regions and for those living in crowded growing our refugee camps in cox's bazar while bangladesh is dealing with coronavirus spend that big super cycle and is approaching its course lying posing a challenge to the authorities here to evacuate coastal areas even if the psycho hits off their wakeling it could cause significant damage to the farmlands and ruined homes. i'll just dhaka bangladesh human rights activists

in argentina are calling for the government to help a poor area born as areas which has been hit hard by cope with 19 maybe more than a 1000 confirmed cases in the village 31 which already suffers from crowded living conditions and a lack of water around 45000 people live in the area and it has become a symbol of inequality in the country too as a bow has worn out from one of us. i am right now in what is known as the 31 neighborhood in one of us we're just a few blocks away from the city from the center of one to fight it is this is a slum where the government has been doing in the past 2 years lots of working in order to improve people's living conditions but anger in this place is has been on the rise there was a protest earlier today demanding better sanitation among other things especially because 2 community leaders from this place passed away just a few days ago because of colvin 1000 their relatives are also infected and we're

told that there is also over 1000 cases in this in this neighborhood and 2 others that are located here in the city of one off site as we were just told by those residents that there were some doctors testing people controlling their fever and testing them for covert 1000 in order to try to contain the spread of 19 in areas such as this one where the lack of sanitation and overcrowding one of those who died just a few dozen days ago has been denouncing the lack of water drinking water but also water to be able to wash their hands even though argentina was one of the 1st countries in the region to impose a complete lockdown and it has prevented the spread of covert 19 nationwide it has not been able to stop the spread in poor neighborhoods such as this one. of chile's 15 members to be in place in quarantine on coronavirus fears this comes as demonstrators fought with police from one of the capital's poorest neighborhoods hundreds to follow suit you would like to demand food and other financial suppliers

a lot of america too soon human reports now from santiago. angry residents of the community in santiago will have begun by blocking streets and screaming we have hungry riot police tried to dispel the crowd with water cannon into gas but they refused to budge and responded with rocks and sticks seems reminiscent of the social upheaval that brought chile for my. until the coronavirus pandemic saw the pause button hit on protests. a bosc is a poor and overcrowded municipality where the majority struggled to make enough to survive even before they were ordered into total florentine in mid april a full month before the entire capital was locked down on friday people say they're not against the quarantine just starvation but how about just get out of here you know this woman that police. this was exactly what many predicted might happen in

the face of widespread unemployment and growing hardships brought on by confinement and a deepening recession. the night before president sebastian pinera had announced a plan to distribute 2500000 boxes of food and cleaning products for the needy across the country less than 24 hours later he rushed to address the nation again appealing for patience and understanding. that i'm in the process of preparing and distributing these boxes demands a tremendous logistical effort and need some time we understand the urgency for many so we are working tirelessly to start distribution by the end of this week or the beginning of next week chris with the 10s of thousands of chileans who have been left with nothing next week may seem like a lifetime away this latest protest shows that many chileans have already run out of patience and the biggest fear is that this incident could well snowball into far

more widespread protests that could be even more difficult to control than chile's earlier social explodes we see in yemen al jazeera suddenly out. pretty sure of course on our website there it is al-jazeera dot com is the address with news we're covering right there lots of comments and analysis to how does your talking. to this is out there these are the top stories and russia has criticized threats by the united states to permanently halt funding to the. president donald trump says the organizations handling of great a virus has come at an extreme cost china accuse the u.s. of trying to avoid blame a white house correspondent can be how it has moved well we know that the u.s. mission to the u.n. is supportive of this resolution essentially happy with the

a partial independent comprehensive review says it's important to understand not only the virus but the timeline which the world knew about it now it is important to note that the u.s. is distancing itself for one aspect of this resolution of that is with regard to pa that it feels that this could in some ways discourage innovation particularly by american inventors as scientists libya's internationally recognized government is continuing its offensive against forces loyal to the warlord who need to have to in the west after taking control of the base on monday jan a forces now say they have retaken the towns of t.g. and bada south of the base soldiers loyal to have to pulled out on monday after suffering major losses during heavy fighting in recent weeks. he said his prime minister has resigned after months of pressure over allegations of involvement in murder thomas to bonnie's coalition fell apart in parliament last monday and he was

asked to step down by the end of this week to make way for a new government body is suspected of conspiring to murder his former wife his current wife has been formally charged with murder. the syrian government to seize the assets belonging to president bashar al assad's cousin rami crew for his one of syria's most prominent businessman he recently addressed a dispute online where he accused the site of forcing him to step down as leader of syria tell the nation's top mobile phone operator human rights activists in argentina are calling for the government to help a poor area of bonus areas which has been hard hit by cave in 1000 and been more than 1000 confirmed cases and the so-called village 31 slum was already suffers from crowded living conditions and the lack of water it's all right you have to dates with all the headlines here and i just got more news coming up right on the inside story.

libya's warlord. is forced into a rich and important advice near the capital tripoli is back in the hands of the un recognized government pull this prolonging the civil war or kick start talks between the warring factions. hello welcome to the program and. told the world he's the only man who can bring stability back to lip.