al-jazeera selects. al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian figure and this is the live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. we could be forgiven for believing the prince's words to suit. our differences democratic presidential hopeful joe biden condemns donald trump's handling of the nationwide police brutality protests. these are not acts of peaceful protests these are acts of domestic terror the u.s. president threatens to deploy the military if state governors fail to end violence some protest sites. a new report says that china delayed sharing vital information

about the coronavirus the world health organization was praising its response back in january. and its restrictions ease in the philippines capital some are hoping to tackle the traffic problem by getting more people to cycle. a president who traffics in fear and division that's the scathing attack launched at donald trump by democratic presidential hopeful joe biden he's accusing him of fanning the flames of hate as he spoke addressing the death of a black man in police custody it's been a week now since protests began across the united states the killing of george floyd in minneapolis last monday kid 3. 3. george ford's last words with you didn't direct him.

are still being heard include all across this nation they speak to a nation where too often. just the color of your skin and put your life at risk a country is crying out for leadership leadership the key to 9 is leadership that brings us together leadership that can recognize pain and deep grief of communities that have had a knee on their neck for a long time donald trump is turning this country no battlefield riven by all resentments and fresh fears he thinks division helps in. his narcissism has become more important in the nation's well being that he leads i ask every american i mean this is a bottom or ask every american look at where we are now and think anew is this who we are live out of washington white house correspondent kimberly how could kennedy on the one hand you've got

a president who's threatening to impose martial law on the other you've got an elder statesman a potential presidential candidate talking about reform reconciliation and leadership. there's no question that joe biden the presumptive democratic presidential nominee used this opportunity as a call for action a very emotional speech at times connecting with his audience potential voters describing how he knows how it feels to grieve as the nation mourns the death of george floyd of course the man that his death has really sparked what joe biden says now is potentially a movement of change that could take a generation in order to overcome systemic racism as a result of viewing that video of george floyd dying on the street his neck being ground into the pavement ultimately causing his death as a policeman kneeled over him now this is really drawn the battle lines if you will

adrian in terms of what this election will look like come november because it joe biden saying that and accusing president trump of fanning the flames of hate causing fear and division something that he says he would not do if he is president but us president donald trump for his part speaking from the rose garden said that as president he had a duty to protect american citizens that he is a law and order president and he well he says he supports the 1st amendment right of americans for peaceful protest what he doesn't support is what happens when the sun goes down and the rioting and the looting begins that continued to happen we should point out across american cities for an other night but the u.s. president's vowing to stop attempting to stop it saying that he believes he was successful at least in washington d.c.

with the deployment of the military in fact we're getting a clearer picture now of what that military support because we should point out it is the governors and police saying that it forces domestic policies not the military but we're now getting a sense of what that sort of. support role looks like the national guard assisting law enforcement in $29.00 states we're being told $18000.00 deployed including an additional $1500.00 right here in washington d.c. we also know that there is increased security now around the pentagon and the number of military bases in the broader washington d.c. region so the u.s. president defending his heavy handed approach even in a morning tweet congratulating himself we're now watching very carefully adrian for what he might have to say responding to joe biden's comments he will be set to leave the white house very shortly he is visiting the shrine of pope john paul the 2nd here in washington d.c. shortly after that he will be signing an executive order on religious freedom and

is that visit to the shrine was that was that something that was always on the president's agenda or was this is this something that's been added to his agenda off to his walk last night. it was added to his agenda after his walk last i'd have to check and see if this was on the presidential calendar all week but what i can tell you is that this is something that the us president has really tried to underscore and this is where he's been opening and he has been opening himself up to criticism is that he used this as a photo opportunity that this is been the criticism from the mayor of washington d.c. marial bowzer who has accused the president of inappropriate use of the military essentially using heavily armed secret service the military to clear protesters in advance of a 7 pm curfew on monday evening so that the president could have the photo opportunity holding the bible in front of the st john's episcopal church on the

other side of the white house campus the u.s. president for his part has long championed religious freedom arguing that there have not been protected in u.s. law the right for people to exercise freely although it is part of the u.s. constitution many of the president's supporters believe that that has been eroded in american institutions in recent years and one of his big pledges has been throughout his presidency to defend that and we've seen that manifested in various ways including some of his supreme court appointments so the u.s. president no question this is an issue for him it will continue to be an issue as we head towards the ballots in november a white house correspondent kimberly how it could live in washington and he thinks complete this as you heard is an election year and these issues are likely to play on the minds of voters mispronounce a serious political hay in his in maryland following the primaries we are in the middle of a global pandemic has he and angry sometimes violent protests right across the

united states the gloves a woman surely off in the election campaign is this going to be a referendum on trump's leadership. 100 percent that is exactly what this is going to come down to because it's not only the fact that the nation is dealing with a pandemic more than 100000 americans dead there's a massive depression happening more than $40000000.00 americans out of work and now we see the civil unrest and it is going to play out at the ballot box and there's a question about how that ballots are going to be given here in maryland and the state sent out basically ballots to everyone they could mail and we're seeing a lot of people come and drop off those ballots people are going to be afraid to necessarily touch the machines that everybody else is touching but we have seen a steady stream of voters and one of the people greeting them is nathan incognito i want to ask you to come over here he's here promoting a friend for the school board but i wanted to get your opinion on this election is

this going to be a referendum on donald trump. i can't say for certain. i think with the unrest that's going on it's important to take in everything that's going on and have that dialogue with the community with friends and family and then we'll see if it's a referendum or not i think for certain what do you think is actually happening here in this country right now how do you explain it to the world it's hard to explain with a heavy heart you see what's going on on both ends of the spectrum. and i think everyone's hurting whether you support. a candidate or not. it's hard to say. you're a nurse and near to treating covert patients how is the government's response been did you feel you had all the personal protective equipment that you needed how do you how would you grade the response from the federal government. it's hard when leadership is saying different things and when you run on it he it's hard to talk

to patients when the leadership isn't there to tell you if you're going to have the tests you need for your patients or if you're going to have the p.t. required to do those tests so it's been a struggle but i think as a community the nursing community the medical field has been responding well despite their disadvantage is that we've been we've been handed. what are your concerns about the election come november i want people to listen. and to hear and see this unrest and then use their voice and use their pens to vote. and to continue that tie log because it's a time of unrest like you said a time of depression like you said and it's important that we take that in and then use that money to vote all right thank you so much nathan incognita i appreciate it good luck to your candidate thank you so as you said people are going to vote the question is how exactly are they going to do that we see a lot of republicans say they don't want to do well and ballots democrats are pushing for that so that's a court that's

a challenge it's being fought in the courts right now and have a big impact on the outcome come november al-jazeera particle hane live in maryland many thanks patty thousands of protesters from across the united states are continuing to take to the streets to decry police brutality there are demonstrations in more than 350 cities many of them planned by the group black lives myself along with police forces national guard troops have also been deployed at least 23 states to handle the protests a curfew has been imposed in new york for the 1st time in 70 is 0 as gabriel was on the morrow from process in brooklyn. this is the scene after night has fallen here in brooklyn we're outside of the barclays center which is a basketball arena and this has been a flashpoint for some of the protest over the last few nights here in new york right now this is a very peaceful protest about candlelight vigil and mostly young people that are

home gathered here right before the curfew is about to go into place and they are supporting each other they're calling for justice they're holding up signs listening to somebody speak and this is a very peaceful how are people message that they're trying to send a message that they want justice we're doing this because not only are we not christ physically we are oppressed and we are presently people police all this is our prize their minds are poisoned to believe that they have heard this but i see a. system oppresses all of us black white brown and everything in between we are here to free the minds of everyone so that they understand him and liberated enough to take a spin for themselves so that we can all live a life that's free. there have certainly been images of rioting and looting in new york city but it's also important to see the vast majority of the protests have

been exactly like this peaceful young people mostly coming together to protest for their rights and a protest for justice and and really you're getting a sense of a sense of outrage and many telling us that they will stay on the streets as long as it takes we've been hearing over the past few hours that i was 0 about the u.s. insurrection act that gives president trump the power to deploy the military on home soil it was lost in folks during the 1992 wrote the king riots in los angeles the congressional research service reported in 2006 the president must 1st issue a. ordering quote insurgents to disperse and if that doesn't work he or she may issue an executive order to deploy troops the act also says that the president doesn't need a state's permission to send in the military to enforce law or suppress rebellion but as a former united states deputy assistant attorney general he hosts

a podcast called talking feds and says the almost no legal barrier standing in trump's way if he should decide to deploy the military. if he wants and he determines in his discretion that the law can't be enforced in a particular place because of the unrest or demonstrations he can on his own call in the army it's true there are these formal requirements but they're pretty straightforward he can he can got his eyes and crosses t's fairly easily and i think he wants to show who's boss especially in certain jurisdictions where he thinks the. local authorities aren't being strong enough and as i say it only takes him on his acting on his own to do it and you imagine military rolling in and tanks and it's kind of a terrifying tablo and it's the reason why it's very very rarely invoked

the insurrection act there's just a strong cultural prohibition against it there's a special law in fact that says it's a crime to do it unless congress has authorized it but that's of course where the insurrection act comes in here congress passed that statute after the civil war and it by its terms would authorize that but the overall sort of political and cultural cost i think would be extreme that the sense of military rolling in the streets to quell citizens demonstrations as anathema to most americans joining us from washington is and it's a for the hill steve clemons he's also the host of sirius the bottom line state when i get your thoughts on the joe biden speech a little earlier what did you make of it. well i thought maybe he was trying to

establish himself in the minds of americans that he knows to how to act presidential how to sound presidential and how to be a calming voice rather than a radicalizing voice and i think he set himself up to be very much of a whale with the posture that president trump is presenting i mean your last guest got it just right i mean the whole notion of american soldiers being deployed to to you know essentially fight u.s. citizens that are protesters slash vandalize years you know harkens back to think we you know usually see in tiananmen square in china or something of that sort so i think joe biden was setting themselves up to say this is the time we need to calm things down and act presidential and i think it was good for him and where does this go now both on the streets and politically in the united sates will things calm down or does this have more to you know to been more about this now between 2 presidential hopefuls november. well you and i know how dangerous the

prediction game is but i was out there just before the tear gas was launched into the crowd in lafayette square in washington i've been doing some work in a studio socially distance and whatnot but about a block from there so i was there and i saw those protesters and they were peaceful it is inconceivable to me that dad the legitimate protesters which are which by far from my observations around the country but also in washington d.c. yesterday is it those legitimate protesters are not going to go away because the president of the united states is threatening them with military action we saw that last night as helicopters tried to land or scare away protesters and they didn't leave and so i think that the 1st deployment of real troops here we saw mark milley the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff walking with the president ited states yesterday that itself was

a stunning and remarkable and shocking sight so i think that protesters will be fueled on the president has a knack for being able to pour fuel on the fire he does not have a knack for putting it out so i suspect we're going to see more of this and it will go on for some time and i don't know what will bring it to an end other than the president saying he will commit to some serious efforts on police brutality reform and to what extent is november's election going to be a referendum on the president's ability to lead his handling of this crisis and of the global pandemic. well i think it is i think that the questions of the court competency of the administration look we've seen lots of books articles leaks come out of the white house about the dismay of the president's own team now i am one who believes that the president president trump could turn this all around very quickly he is if he is you know best known for be able to turn on

a dime excuse the colloquialism but but to turn on a dime to move quickly to be nimble to change his direction and course and if he were to reach out to his opponents if he were to try to demonstrate an element of magnanimity then i think the president could do well but for whatever reason and i don't understand what it is right now he is trying to appear to the most of nations jingoistic side of the american political spectrum right now and i think he's losing political independents he clearly isn't going to get democrats and he may be rocking some of those that identify themselves as republican so i do think that both. states sorry to interrupt you there we're going to take you live now to washington where many. is addressing the press following last night's events listening in the white house were dispersed using some parma munitions. d.c. police throughout the night and forced the curfew and last night i think the team

will come from this number that. a number of people were arrested in violation up that protest i want to as the chief of police peter newsham to come up and describe our response last night and then we can take a few questions thank you and thank you god for your continued leadership in these very difficult. peter. sorry states we just wanted to catch a few words from from muriel bowser that. we call the tail end of it we'll try to go back to when she starts to. questions from journalists but you were telling us about how this november's election is going to be a referendum on the president's divisive leadership and his ability to deal with crises such as this and also his handling of the pandemic. you know look some of us

who observe the president very closely as i try and do ask that sometimes check our own frames at the door and understand that he sometimes reaches people and succeeds in ways that are astonishing that are unexpected and until what i call a lysol day when the president of the united states played around with the idea that perhaps injecting disinfectants and people would somehow cure them of the coronavirus and rid their bodies of that or finding some sort of internal light which was kind of you know wacky science until that day the president's numbers were rising that despite testing that testing fiasco in the united states despite the rapid spread of probate in america despite the fumbling between our food and drug administration our centers for disease control all of that despite all of that the president was succeeding in terms of his approval ratings with the american public and when lysol day hit it began to decline and now i think a lot of americans are taking another look at the core competency and whether he's

helping to lead and whether he's trying to calm things down and to respond as a. a stable leader would in a time of a terrible storm now we've got to terrible storms if not 3 we have 42000000 people unemployed and people are on edge and so when you kind of look at the combination of unemployment economic paralysis a pandemic disease that is killing over $100000.00 people and on top of that police brutality and a video of the killing of a black man that is one after many many other violent incidents against both black men and women and other people of color when you add all that up i think many americans are going to be looking at the question of his competency competency his direction and what he wants america to be calm and that is something that democrats don't support clearly but political independents have been up for grabs and i have to tell you. right now i'm

a political independent many of the people i know fall into that care care you know category and they are going to be the ones who really make their determination on where they think this president has a soul but plan for the nation to move it forward and right now i think there are significant doubts about that because of crow but because of the economy and his failure to really address the police brutality that everyone saw horribly on that video good still to steve as always many thanks indeed steve clemons there live for us in washington d.c. at that press conference with d.c. mayor. is still going on new york's mayor bill de blasio also speaking right now we're listening to both those press conferences here at al-jazeera and we'll bring you anything use with the that comes out of them now a private autopsy report office new evidence against the officers who arrested george floyd the document describes his death as mudda as odd as it was john hendren reports george floyd tried to tell police he was struggling for air.

in a private autopsy requested by floyd family doctors conclude that was what caused his death the cause of death in my opinion is as fixed due to compression of the neck. as he lay on the street the official hennepin county coroner's report says floyd died of a heart attack brought on by head and neck compression but it found no evidence that he died of strangulation and said his coronary artery disease and hypertension were contributing factors the private autopsy contradicts that saying all 3 officers who knelt on floyd contributed to a death it calls murder the autopsy shows that mr floyd had no underlying. medical problem that caused or contributed to his death that has demonstrators on the street questioning authority

you know i don't think he was going to have a heart attack that day and pass away without what happened to him on the street the dueling autopsies his eroded the more re diminished faith that people here in their streets have an american institutions 1st many of the protesters of course lost faith in the police then they lost faith in the politicians who sent the police into crackdown on them now they're questioning the coroner's office. i don't trust them i can't how could you do this keep happening when they try to hide it they try to cover it up that the institutions that were supposed to trust the top terrorist law enforcement can't. just keep the transfer letting of. terence floyd came to the scene of his brother's death to urge calm. horse. and

a bird don't matter nobody domo good is not going to stop with our stuff so to get us the story off. their knuckles. let's go to some other one that he said that is what his brother would have wanted john hendren l.g. 0 minneapolis. a stray a news crew of the latest members of the media to be attacked by police during the us protest against police brutality. look at the. straightest prime minister scott morrison has asked for an investigation after a cameraman was punched by an officer during a live broadcast police across the u.s. have been criticized for pepper spraying attacking at arresting accredited members of the press right back to washington d.c. where. is addressing the pressure is taking questions out there is listening.

yeah she's gone back to. find musicians county that the what i use in your department or you know with voice so i can only talk from my department and. you know this is a very fluid activity so all of anytime we deploy minissha is our police officers are required to report that and we investigate that our internal affairs division will go back and they will investigate every deployment that we had what we had used last night and the time that we can say that we didn't use pepper spray at other points because when you're making arrests of that nature if anybody rushes a line an officer may utilize a pepper spray to control that line but the only incident in which we that i believe that we deployed sting balls and o.c. spray. and c.s.

spray was when we were dealing with that last group of 300 protesters that was 'd in the bed finity. judiciary square. you talk about your officers did play a role active role impressive role in the movement of the present a clear that is the 16th and i was present was i think just the john stewart your bicycle officers dozens of them moved all the protesters were split that one protester russian officer during that movement was addressed i don't know what you're talking about was a garage to that mark i can tell you that the way that generally the operation worked for the metropolitan police department at about $630.00 almost $630.00 on the dot well preceding this we had the mare and i went out and made it abundantly clear that there would be a curfew here in the district of columbia starting at 7 pm and i think that was widely known there was an alert that was sent to all cell phones in the air. that

there would be a curfew beginning tonight a last night at 7 pm and that if you're out past 7 pm you could be subject to arrest so that was to give folks a fair warning if if you had an essential activity if you had to vote. you know or if you're a member of the media did not apply to you so we wanted to make it abundantly clear to folks at 6 30 pm last night in addition to those warnings that were given to the public we had announced on our p.a. systems to the group that was gathered down at lafayette park that there was a curfew in effect and they could be subject to arrest at that point some of the groups began to march around the city the group that was stopped at 16th and i 17th and i street was one of those groups that was in violation curfew that was not that stop at 17th and i was not related to the presidential. talking to

that were 7 o'clock while the president's message on at 60 they're not there are a lot worse than officers are cool response to these these the national guard and move protesters down my street way from down 63 away from lafayette where they got to i street and that's where that every wall and sees their. right. point so that's away from st john's significantly away from st john's as. well that way and an operation like that it's not in the vicinity of the president so your insinuation that somehow the match pomp least barber was involved in the movement of the president i think is an accurate i'll go back and look at our operation to ensure that that was the case where your officers moved protesters at worst move protesters one of the protesters i just one of your officers you're not aware any of that i don't have that information but i can tell you this we were not involved

in the movement of the president. the unplanned moment of the present. don't. tell us you said the d.c. police department did not just pay into better acted yesterday around the white up lafayette park but had been asked to stay fueling part of shore before and after they'd been asked to participate if you did not know about prior to the event we had drawn clear areas of responsibility with our federal partners that area down there right to the north of lafayette square was a federal responsibility a level that today the secret service is close circle just a couple of years streets street you'd normally throw under what authority does the secret service have to close maybe the mayor was on to it too close to the streets do we normally otherwise use except for the police action by the white house the

secret service as you know has the authority to move the president around the united states and i know that there is a presidential movement under foot right now and they have sometimes after close streets in order to make those movements. yes you have been quite critical of with the white house and for people who don't but you're also aware of the district 73 home rule act where the president at the stroke of a pen to the specific say control of the d.c. police department not exactly right. essentially well and kind of essentially. what regard that as a affront to even our limited home role in the safety of the district of columbia absolutely if you've got news of the case in the white house is considering doing that maybe your press conference was yesterday. let me just say this one time

you know but that i have a lot of conversations on behalf of the residents of the district of columbia some of them i can discuss fully and some i will give you the gist of in is this i think that you heard the president yesterday that he wanted to show a force in d.c. and we know that they examined a lot of ways to do that. now . or. i heard her remarks on one of the morning shows today our office and in fact i wanted to reach her yesterday i didn't get a chance to try to reach her today i toured st john's yesterday as you know as far

in as we could get in to the fire damage we are grateful that our d.c. fire in e.m.'s got to the church and was able to extinguish the fire with with relatively light damage to a basement area outside of the main sanctuary of the church so we're happy that that that happened we don't want to see any destruction or arson graffiti smashing looting and our city and the church with the paste and we think that's a terrible thing we reckon i appreciated the bishops comments. that she wasn't involved in in that and was kind of appalled at the church being used as a backdrop. just giving it to. the mayor

went out and well you are seeing there was an order to disperse the general practice district in all fours one of the centers for your it so that issue and then there was the helicopters coming pretty close to ground. 0. there's concern that national or human or. i mean this is these military resources . or are we through that concern that. i know. that really ringback is. as we mentioned we we are concerned about we become concerned about any police or non policing forth in the district that doesn't share our values and it's not accountable to the chief of police or to make having said that their federal partners that we work with all the time and that whose assistance we did welcome and that we're police f.b.i.

police the a police that have supported. various operations including demonstrations who are with us for a couple of nights during during this response i'm going to ask the chief to speak about arming the national guard while we ask for the national guard's assistance on the checkpoints so to speak around our purple limb. parameter to manage flow of traffic and how to manage that we do we did not and do not request a armed guard for any purpose in the district of columbia. yeah theory about how the mayor of washington d.c. along with washington put chief of police peter newsham what the journalist trying to get to the bottom of here is who ordered what and when as far as what happened last night when peaceful protesters were moved forcibly tear gas was was

involved. before the president began his walk. from the white house to a nearby church you heard the chief of police there saying that his men were not involved in what happened you also heard. saying that while they requested assistance from the national guard to help around the outside of the city at no time would they. their presence was at no time as their presence requested inside the city by the way. bill de blasio of new york has been speaking while this is going on and he was saying that the national guard should not be brought into into his city as they were they will keep listening to the man her chief of police and we'll let you know what else comes out of that news conference at the u.n. human rights chief michelle bachelet has weighed in she says that the protests triggered by the killing of george floyd one highlighting not only police violence

against people of color but also inequalities in health education employment and endemic racial discrimination the european union has condemned the use of excessive force by police officers in the us foreign affairs minister josep borel says that the e.u. is shocked and appalled at the death of george floyd we have to be sure everywhere especially in societies reach out beijing the rule of law to look at it representation and respect for freedoms and liberties and dad. people who are in charge of taking care of the older are not using their capacities and a way that has been used on this very very unhappy. death . of flight this isn't used by what and this has to be

just to be the nouns to be combat into states and everywhere the world health organization was concerned that it would be kicked out of china if it pushed beijing too hard on vital information during the early days of the pandemic that's according to an investigation by the associated press which says the data could have dramatically slowed the outbreak internal recordings reveal that the world health organization was frustrated at the lack of cooperation from beijing but the un agency continued to praise china publicly january as a means to secure more information about covert 19 china refused to release the genetic map or genome of the virus for more than a week after it had fully decoded the information beijing only released that data should have been published on of the role just websites and it took another 2 weeks for china to provide further information on patients and cases under serious katrina you reports now from beijing. now this report threatens both the

credibility of the world health organization and of china after trolling dozens of interviews and internal documents reporters from a.p. found that china was not forthcoming when it came to providing information about the virus during the early days of the outbreak that it stalled in terms of providing the virus genome to the public and also many world health organization officials were kept in the dark it also said that publicly world health organization spokespersons praised and rewarded chinese china's efforts but only in an attempt to coax more information out of the government now this flies in the face of the line that we've heard from tons foreign ministry for the past few months and indeed from president xi jinping himself who has said that beijing has always been forthcoming transparent and responsible when it has come to providing the international community with information about the pandemic and providing the world health organization with information as well president xi jinping has said

that he promises to contribute true $1000000000.00 to the organization over the next 2 years but at the same time the report also goes against what the trump administration is saying it has accused the world health organization of colluding with the chinese government now it seems that they did praise and they were biased in their public opinion of china but it seems that the reason for this was very different to what it appeared to be to the public david alexander is a professor of risk and disaster reduction at university college london he joins us now live from florence skype good to have you with us professor what's more troubling here china's delay in providing information to the world health organization or countries underestimating the risk. i believe the latter is important i think that china are slow to provide the necessary information and that is not one characteristic of the way china behaves in these cases it tends to be suspicious and conservative and not to want to share

things unless there is a clear good reason to do so richard tends to find out as time goes on on the other hand there is clear evidence that many governments were slow to act when they had enough information and let's also bear in mind that we had the scenario for this pandemic promoted in 10 years and then thought what was happening was really following a pattern that was pretty well known now the full extent of that and the full seriousness this of that could not be known even with the information that the chinese had although it perhaps could be known a little quicker if we all collaborate bowl moreover this is a case of sars and the last major case of southers 2002 to 2004 was only stopped from being a pandemic of this seriousness by concerted international collaboration and that is

a very important point the did china's behavior at the very least delay the world's reaction once it had realized the seriousness of the provirus. not to think we'll have to wait and see until we can reconstruct in fairly minute detail the decision making processes of the actions taken by different governments but in my view when things began to get serious then that was the critical point at which more needed to be done because one thing we have learnt from this bugger's is that early decisive action is what saves the day many countries gave good a many countries were afraid of the economic consequences i think for example or part of japan was very reluctant to cancel or postpone the olympics we've been had but there are parts of the olympic flame amidst crowds in the united kingdom there are sporting events with tens of thousands of people laugh at times what really

government should have been acting very decisively in order to save money now it's already were to speak with hindsight but in point of fact they're worth things that were no look at the time regardless of china's behavior but perhaps pointed to the need to act early and more decisively professor really good to talk to you many thanks indeed for being with us i said david i will examine the. officials in bangladesh of confirm the 1st curve at 19 deaths among the refugees 71 year old man died in the long camp which is home 260-0000 displaced rohingya from manama he was among the 29 people who tested positive last month 15000 refugees have been put under quarantine the un has warned of a severe impact in the of crowded camps which shelter more than 800000 people always donovan is a spokesperson for the u.n. high commissioner for refugees and says that there's an urgent need for more

testing to stop the virus from spreading in the world's largest refugee camp. we've been preparing for this for several months for 3 months we've been aware that the pandemic was spreading the numbers have been increasing in bangladesh and we've been preparing with the governments and with on humanitarian partners and as you know the 1st case was was confirmed just over 2 weeks ago and since then there are 29 contract cases and in the meantime in the period we've also managed to open 2 facilities and which will be used to serve and to care for patients with their most severe symptoms of these are called and severe acute respiratory infection isolation and treatment facilities either another 9 of these facilities that are under construction so we're hoping that they can be completed in the next 3 weeks and the other issue that we really need to focus on is increasing the amount of testing being done to ensure a reduction of the transmission and the actually the testing of an cox bazaar has just received a new p.c. or testing machine from the world health organization so we're hoping to increase

the number of tests per day from 202508 british statistics watchdogs criticised the u.k. government for publishing data on coronavirus tests that it says were far from complete it comes after health secretary mark time called claims that he'd managed to reach 100000 tests a day but the figures show the test were mailed out to people one of them actually completed events for the pressure and concern around the government's handling of the pandemic nearly 50000 people have died from the virus in the u.k. according to the office of national statistics let's go live to london i was serious paul brennan can tell us more paul about this role over the government's measuring or its statistics its figures of the testing. well the government's measuring of testing and of where the virus actually is here in the u.k. is critically important because we are in a week where things are starting to reopen schools are reopening i'm here at

london's famous camden market for example which is open for the 1st time with its outside elements now back in business but the u.k. statistical or thorazine is questioning the government's use of facts and figures and it amounts to nothing less than a shop rebuke of the way the government is putting out numbers for public consumption so they have nor crave is the head of the u.k. statistical authority and he's taking particular issue with the way the government is trumpeting the amount of tests that it says are being done you recall as you mentioned a month ago at the end of april into may the government said it wanted to reach 100000 tests a day it did so briefly by counting those tests which had been put in the post and mailed out to people so it said oh we've achieved that target days afterwards it brings you back down to below 76000 a day and now the government is setting itself a target of saying we want to pass have a capacity of 200000 tests

a day on the sets of school authorities simply saying look it's getting to the stage where you can't trust the figures that have been put out not give you the quote from the david norgrove he said the aim the government same seems to be to show the largest number of tests even at the expense of understanding that sort of interrupt you but. we're going to go live to washington. where president trump is. posing for photographs of the moment for the media we're hoping that he might. say something as he visits. the pope john paul the 2nd shrine in washington we were told that he was going to go to war in a way that he did last night. obviously hasn't worked because nobody in the media has seen him. and here he is.

we will we'll keep an eye on on that as our correspondent saying a little earlier this was this event was added to the president's show deal. only yesterday. so we're wondering whether the president is going to use this as an opportunity to address the media obviously going through. the the somber element of this event 1st as i said we'll keep across that and if the president speaks to the media we'll go to it live here on to syria in the meantime well we'll move away and cover some more news saudi arabia is seeking to raise $2300000000.00 to support or top water on yemen riyadh is co-hosting a virtual conference along with the u.n. it a lack of funding is threatening to shut several u.n. programs health system could collapse if there's a major covert 19 outbreak in yemen a saudi u.s.

led coalition has been facing hooty rebels in yemen for more than 5 years we are in the race against time reports indicate that you aden mortality rates on par with 19 that among the highest in the world we have never had so little money for it operations in yemen this late in years aid agencies is the main if they really it up to $2410000000.00 u.s. dollars to cover essential aid from jordan to be sent out including programs the content of 19 and last you said you would see if you can funding more than search the other 41 major united nations programs in yemen who close in the next few weeks show nicholas news is the united nations high commissioner for refugees representative in yemen he's joining us now live from santa what is the main message of this virtual conference. the main message today coming from riyadh and them it's over 30 very t.

they give anybody a shim they have through so for 5 years of age it's one of the largest in germany is this man so funny they've been had to leave their all because of it will take because they're all men have destroyed by the opening of the city in it's one of the city diary kiwi that she didn't know who men who do not have enough to eat every day cannot have access to and make a good household the have tightly that been destroyed by the police need funding now you need to have both you and but not and not many national and you all those who didn't create it go a life that mean it never ends and to almost 80 percent of the population in yemen is a sudden irony of this is that this virtual conference is being co-hosted by saudi arabia which has been fighting huth the rebels in yemen for more than 5 he is and is directly responsible. for much of what it's trying to raise money to fight.

as you mentioned i will leave the fully exposed to the british and what i'm really clear is that we have a quitting farm and of the country and for all people. to bring the poppy to the config to the neighbors to incredible because that can help. that we have next thing today and yes men in preventing by these countries but that's a few minutes then we need to feel i mean for a good many population than we could just see. 3 fronts the insanity many and something like 280000 refugees many coming from somebody out to find a song safe. and therefore we have no time to do in making sure that we can continue providing food. and medicine he says josh so that people can

buy the lives of people who'd also cruel who will often have plastic sheeting. and what's the situation with the coronavirus with the pandemic in yemen right now how badly affected is the country. we have a huge fan of this thread also going on about it being that in yemen we know that the population we had that we insist that for the internally displaced population will leave the product side it's almost impossible to track the field because the fencing. is a member of the family seat and most people do not have access to running water therefore they cannot even wash their hands regularly. the death toll is going quickly and we need to front section all the mission to

get any population but also those winds and move like 3 cities in any community because that means i will make the call not my own and that subjected to reprisal and the machinations even in times of access to medical care ok shown across cups of tea many thanks they'd show nicholas. the united nations high commission for refugees representative in yemen. during blocked out of the philippines manila the capital thousands of essential workers resorted to peise of course after public transport was shut down now as restrictions are beginning to ease it's hoped that the new 2 wheeled habits will stick around general allen dog and of course. gridlock has long been a way of life in one of the world's most could just cities most of the routes in manila are packed with nearly every type of vehicle and it is anything but friendly to bike. but for andrew o'malley who works as an emergency doctor in manila

choosing to use his bicycle is an act of defiance 4 years ago he ditched his car and got a bicycle he says it has made life easier for a particular mother commute costs me 45 minutes so when i started writing made by it was cut down to 15 minutes and i realized. it would save a lot more time and even sneak in some exercise along doing. so he invited us to cycle with him on his way to work through. the fire you have the programs for how do you know but like for so many people here biking in manila requires attention and strong navigational skills. would have as does we'll have a flat tire. and inconvenience but he says he doesn't mind since he doesn't live too far away from work. biking in manila often means navigating through its

busiest streets a journey often fraught with peril but the transportation ban imposed by the government has forced many here to embrace cycling to get around commuters here spend an average of at least 16 days a year stuck in traffic advocates see the government has to change the way he sees urban. we have to be able to the science infrastructure and the science policies to make sure that the wave of bikers that's about the problem that bikers are safe because otherwise if we have an increase in the bikers without the c b then we can see definitely a big wave a big increase of road crash tests cyclists here tell us the lockdown has made biking a much more pleasant experience here for the past few months but not for long the government is using its restrictions and millions of filipinos are going back to work but public transport is still limited that's why many advocates here believe

more people will now be cycling. they say it's the perfect solution in a post pandemic new normal. biking is good for the environment physical fitness and yes even social distancing. similarly don't get into. the music industry is observing black on tuesday a day of silence reflection a meaningful action and all of george floyd's they've been joined by hollywood celebrities to modding justice stars like fiona apple michael b. jordan all scenario a grand day join demonstrations over the weekend others have been sharing messages on social media calling on the music industry to take action to help ensure accountability and change will take a short break down i'll just say i'll be back in just about to see it.

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