♪ hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world, you are watching "cnn newsroom" and i'm rosemary church. just ahead, a subway overpass collapses on to a busy street. cnn is live on the scene in mexico city. india's pandemic plight, even state of the art hospitals in new delhi are desperate for oxygen, unable to keep some patients breathing, but there are signs the u.s. is winning its war on covid-19 as president biden hopes life will be back to some kind of normal within months. ♪

the death toll from the mexico city subway disaster has risen to 20 and authorities say some of the victims are children. nearly 50 people are hospitalized and there's no word yet on what caused this tragedy. surveillance video shows the moment part of the overpass collapsed on to traffic below. it's only eight seconds long and you can see the train cars come crashing down with bursts of fire and then a huge cloud of dust and debris. this accident happened on the city's newest train line the golden line. the mexico city mayor says one survivor was rescued from the rubble. she says no one else is trapped. our matt rivers joins us now live from mexico city from the scene of this tragedy. so, matt, what more are you learning about what is happening right now in terms of those who survived this tragedy and how

this happened? >> reporter: rosemary, we just heard from the mayor of mexico city just a few minutes ago, she gave a press conference updating the latest numbers. 23 people have now been confirmed killed as a result of this accident, 69 people now hospitalized, but, as you say, no one remains trapped in this scene behind me. i want to show you what we can see from our vantage point, we are 100, maybe 200 meters away from where this accident happened. you can see that's the bottom of one of the train cars that fell when this overpass collapsed. david, if you can pan up a little bit and show this overpass here, you can see it's a pretty standard metro overpass made of concrete, steel underneath the concrete platform on top, but clearly it collapsed and sent two cars down to the ground below. at this point it's very clear that what is happening here is no more about a search and rescue operation, this is

clearly more of a clean up operation. there are big cranes here now making sure that they're stabilizing this structure here next to me as much as they can because what will happen is as we continue to treat people, rosemary, in the hospital, as they unfortunately have to break the news to the 23 perhaps and counting people, the loved ones of those who lost their lives here, of course, there are going to be questions for authorities moving forward about how exactly this happened. how did this infrastructure which has been built only in the last ten years or so, fail so spectacularly in this kind of fashion. those are going to be the questions moving forward, but of course, rosemary, right now the focus remains on the injured who are in the hospital and also the 23 people at least so far that have lost their lives. >> yes, it most certainly does. the focus on those who lost their lives, those who are in the hospital, but those questions will remain and what sort of checks and balances are

there in mexico city to try to stop this sort of thing from happening? >> reporter: you know, there has always been a lot of concern here in mexico city over the city's infrastructure, this is a place that sees a lot of earthquakes. it was in 2017 that hundreds of people lost their lives during an earthquake. in some cases while inside buildings that were supposed to be up to city code. those buildings were supposed to be following the rules and yet they weren't. that left a lot of people here in mexico city extremely angry over that, angry over the fact that the government seemingly isn't enforcing those kind of protective measures needed in a place like this. we don't know what happened here behind us, we don't know if, you know, this structure here behind me wasn't up to code, but we do know that it failed spectacularly somehow and there are already questions here in mexico city from the public about how something like this could happen and that is going

to be the primary focus of this investigation moving forward. >> people will want answers for sure. cnn's matt rivers in mexico city. many thanks for bringing us up to date on that situation. well, the latest numbers from india's battle with coronavirus are jarring. more than 20 million people have been infected with covid-19 in india alone. the health ministry reported over 350,000 new cases on tuesday, the government has postponed exams for medical and nursing students. they will be monitoring mild coronavirus cases under supervision. cnn's sam kiley has this exclusive report from new delhi. >> reporter: i'm in a facility that's being run by a ngo, one of the few places in the delhi area where they can get oxygen and they get it by driving sometimes 500, 600 miles or more. they are expecting a delivery from mumbai 1,200 miles away but

people who are at death's door, he would die if he didn't get this oxygen and that is exactly what's been happening in some of the more sophisticated hospitals in delhi. tears for a much loved colleague, dr. hintani, killed by covid-19 in the same hospital where he had spent a year treating other victims of the coronavirus. grief and the inevitable silent question, who is next? he died here in this intensive care unit because the hospital where he worked ran out of the most basic necessity, oxygen. he was not alone. the medical director of the hospital gave the midafternoon casualty figures in this war against a virus.

>> eight patients died today. died just now. and five patients they are under resusc resuscitation. may or may not survive. just because in the capital city of delhi and because of want of oxygen which is the lifeline. >> reporter: he knew the chances of reviving the five were slim. >> when you heard this morning that you had just a few hours of oxygen and then eight patients die, what does that do to you, to the soul of a doctor? >> i cannot explain my feeling. we are dying inside. we cannot express our feelings. i cannot express my feeling because how i'm feeling inside. >> is it destroying you? >> yes. >> how long have you been a doctor? >> what, sir? >> how long have you been a

doctor? >> 45 years. >> must be soul destroying. i can't imagine what it must be like for you. i'm sorry. >> i'm sorry, sir. >> reporter: over the next hour four of the five resuscitation patients died. in the space of about two hours when the oxygen ran out 12 people died in this hospital which in every other respect is a first world facility, they simply asphyxiated. the hospital advises people to source their own supplies of oxygen to cover their erratic supplies. local and international efforts to get enough gas into india's capital are failing. india's central and national government have been unable to explain the oxygen shortages and as the numbers of people affected with covid-19 soar in india along with the daily death toll, this hospital like many

others will admit no more patients. there's no point. >> we will not take more admissions because we don't want people to die in front of us so they can go to their hospital where the oxygens are available. >> reporter: this doctor runs a hindu several charity, he pulled through covid before the oxygen started to run out. >> from housekeeping even the nursing staff, the supervisors are working very hard. >> reporter: fair enough, but the indian government's failure to ensure basic supplies to hospitals in the face of a long-term pandemic is simply not going to wash. now, the health minister has argued over the last week or so that delhi is actually getting more oxygen that it's asking for. the evidence on the ground rather indicates the opposite. >> cnn's sam kiley reporting there. i spoke last hour with a fellow

at the institute of current world affairs and i asked her why the indian government was to unprepared. >> it was almost unbelievable to see the level of ill preparation for this second wave. experts have been warning us about the effects of the virus and the second wave since february and in march we started to see an uptick of cases, but i think there was a lot of pandemic fatigue and complacency and because we were seeing a lower number of cases in february, the government all but declared that we had seen the end of the virus, and we saw across the country mass rallies being held, religious festivals being held and cricket matches and i think the general sense of complacency and ill preparation by the government at a time when experts were warning us that we were going to see a rise in cases has now led us to this situation where we're seeing an unprecedented amount of cases

and deaths. >> speaking with me last hour from new delhi. covid's spread across india is spilling beyond its borders. look at the steep rise in neighboring nepal. just over two weeks ago the seven-day average of new cases was at 500, now it's well over 5,000. nepal reported a record number of new infections on monday and the country's prime minister is asking the international community for help. it's a very different story here in the united states. the centers for disease control and prevention says more than 40% of adults are fully vaccinated. you can see the state by state breakdown here. the latest data shows roughly 106 million people are fully vaccinated. the average daily number of cases and deaths in the u.s. has fallen to one fifth of their peak in january. u.s. president joe biden touted the vaccination progress and made this prediction for the

months ahead. >> i think by the end of the summer we will be in a very different position than we are now. as you know, i've worked very hard to make sure we have over 600 million doses of vaccine, we're going to continue to make sure that's available, we're going to increase that number across the board as well so we can also be helping other nations once we take care of all americans. >> the u.s. food and drug administration is poised to authorize the pfizer/biontech covid vaccine for children and teens ages 12 to 15 by early next week. that is according to a federal government official. with strong progress in vaccinations and falling cases and deaths, questions are now being asked about how coronavirus restrictions across the u.s. should be eased and when. nick watt has that angle for us. >> i'm looking for my mask, i'm in trouble. >> reporter: no, you're not, mr. president, not anymore, you are not in a crowd and you are

outside. cdc says you don't need one. the rules are now confusing and perhaps too cautious for the fully vaccinated. >> you are very well immune and you no longer need masks in public. you can go into places without masks and it's time for the cdc to start embracing this kind of bifurcated strategy. >> reporter: more confusion, massachusetts just loosened its outdoor mask rules but the town of brookline, mass, kept them tight. >> part of the deal we should be cutting with the american people is when there are restrictions that are not necessary we should absolutely lift them. >> reporter: florida just went further, invalidated all local covid-19 restrictions for everyone. >> the approach here is showing florida leading the way again. >> reporter: the national average daily case count just fell below 50,000 for the first time since october. >> right now the gains we're seeing across the country are locked in. i think in the coming weeks we're going to see an

acceleration, the decline in cases and one of the big reasons is vaccination. >> reporter: meantime, in india where the vaccination program remains pitiful, thousands are now dying daily from this virus. >> and because of -- which is the life lines. >> reporter: tomorrow heavy travel restrictions from india kick in. >> do you think there would be one person today in india that wouldn't line up to take the vaccines? they would all line up as far as you could go. >> reporter: but the pace of vaccination in this country is slowing. by percentage of population vaccinated top three performing states are all in the northeast. new mexico is also doing well. worst performing, mainly in the south and utah. >> herd immunity is going to be challenging any way you cut or slice it. >> reporter: even 50%, 55%

vaccinated can be game changing. >> you really see case numbers plummet. we may not get to zero, we probably won't, but if we can get the infections at very low levels, most of us can get back to our lives in normal ways, i think we can probably live with that. >> reporter: two numbers to end on. this sunday was the busiest air travel day in the united states since the pandemic began. ten times the number of passengers passing through airports as the same day last year. and here in los angeles county where nearly 24,000 people have died during the pandemic, on sunday not a single new death was recorded. nick watt, cnn, los angeles. florida's governor isn't alone in wanting to move on from the pandemic, both oklahoma and alabama are lifting their states of emergency. here is how one governor explained it. >> because oklahomans used personal responsibility to protect themselves, their

families and our most vulnerable the data shows covid-19 is no longer an emergency. >> and the city that never sleeps may once again live up to that motto. new york governor andrew cuomo says mta subway service will return to a 24-hour seven days a week schedule on may 17th. that's also when a midnight outdoor food and beverage curfew will be lifted. foreign ministers from the group of seven nations are meeting face-to-face today in london. the latest from the g7. that's next. plus, mill and melinda gates announced they're getting divorced. what it means for the multi-billion dollar foundation that shares their name. we will have the latest. wildfls to create our limited-edition spring collection. so, we're partnering with world wildlife fund to re-seed native wildflowers and grasslands. learn more at airwick.us.

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welcome back, everyone. foreign ministers from the g7 are gathering this hour for their first photo together in two years. as the group repairs to sit down in london for face-to-face in-person meetings. on monday the british foreign secretary met with u.s. secretary of state antony blinken and discussed a range of issues, among them relations with china.

>> it is not our purpose to try to contain china or to hold china down. what we are trying to do is to uphold the international rules-based order that our countries have invested so much in over so many decades to the benefit i would argue not just of our own citizens but people around the world, including, by the way, china. >> cnn's international diplomatic editor nic robertson joins me from london. what's expected to come out this have g7 summit in the end? >> reporter: well, a sort of operating banner, if you will, are the global issues that threaten to undermine democracies, freedoms, human rights. this is the sort of strategic approach, if you will, of these nations that are gathering, but, you know, look at the run down today and it gives you an idea of the big issues and priorities. china gets two hours discussion, russia and hour and a half,

syria half an hour, libya half an hour, afghanistan may be a little longer than that. the indo-pacific region will be discussed by the g7 foreign ministers over dinner tonight. so the real focus here is an indo-pacific china focus. you heard antony blinken speaking about it and the agenda is designed to sort of bring together the united states allies, the g7 normally just uk, france, germany, italy, the united states, germany, canada, but they have invited along india, australia, south korea, south africa and the chair of the asean group of nations, the foreign minister also here. think of this as a summit, as a pre-summit to pave the way for the leader summit which will happen here in about a year. climate change is also going to be on the agenda, covid-19

dealing with the pandemic, the current pandemic, but also preparedness for the future, making sure that these global partners can be ready to move more swiftly to head off the impact of future pandemics. so all of that is on the agenda but that issue you heard antony blinken talking b china, i think that's going to be the central issue that the united states hopes to come away with agreement over how to head off what china does in its country, which is they accuse it of intellectual property theft, of cyber attacks, of also essentially enslaving uighur populations into what's been described as false labor. china rebuts those allegations, but this is what the united states wants to do, which is gather its allies and find a way to hold china back. of course, the allies all have

differences, differences of approach. one of the representatives today will be the eu representative for fez and the eu just before president biden came into office struck its own economic deal with china. all sorts of hurdles, but that's the big push here. >> nic robertson live from london. many thanks. earlier i spoke with cnn political analyst josh rogin and i asked him how the g7 nations will deal with china. >> the debate over how to deal with china is just beginning, but we couldn't even have that debate amongst the g7 countries because donald trump didn't like the g7 and treat that had grouping with a mix of disdain and neglect. at least they're talking about it, but that's just the first step, the next step is to come up with some solutions that would address the shared problem. >> right. and how difficult will that be? >> it will be the challenge of our generation. we're dealing with a chinese

communist party that is increasingly militarily, economically, technologically, idealogically expansionist and interfering in free and open societies all over the world and the coronavirus pandemic has brought that to the fore in a lot of democratic countries who are now dealing with their relationship with china in a new light because their populations see what happens when they have a chinese government that uses vaccines or ppe or masks or information to exert its pressure and power over these societies. that's a very complex problem. i think the basic notion is that no country can stand up to the rising chinese government aggression on its own, so it will require countries with values and interests that are overlapping to join together. >> cnn political analyst josh rogin talking to me earlier. still to come here on cnn, andrew brown jr.'s funeral held amid growing calls for police to release body cam video of his

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♪ family and friends gathered minnesota to remember andrew brown jr. the black man fatally shot by police almost two weeks ago in north carolina. they are also calling for justice and want authorities to release the body cam footage of brown's death. cnn's brian todd reports. >> reporter: an emotional service as family and supporters

remembered andrew brown jr., shot and killed by sheriff's deputies executing a warrant in north carolina 12 days ago. >> i do know him as a very good person, did nobody no harm. >> reporter: a message for his sons. >> he looked them in the eyes with no gun. comfort -- let that comfort you. your daddy was a man. >> reporter: also calls for change. >> we're going to keep it going. we're going to get justice behind this. that's for sure. appreciate everybody. >> reporter: civil law advocates calling for law enforcement accountability. >> andrew was killed unjust phi blee as many black men in america have been killed, shot in the back. >> you don't need time to get a tape out. put it out. let the world see what it is to see. if you've got nothing to hide then what are you hiding?

>> reporter: advocates pledging to pressure congress and the justice department to change police tactics and reduce the deaths of black men in police encounters. >> we're going to be going to washington, d.c. arguing for the united states senate to pass the george employee justice in policing act. now another name added to that argument will be andrew brown jr. >> reporter: and protesters planning to keep up the pressure to release all the body camera footage in brown's case, the public has only seen video showing deputies arriving and shouting commands, only two family members and one family attorney have seen a short 20 second clip of the incident and say brown was shot as he sat in his car and then backed away. >> at no time in the 20 seconds that we saw where he was threatening the officers in any kind of way. >> reporter: the district attorney's version, brown moved his car backward, then forward, making contact with law enforcement both times. >> it is then and only then that

you hear shots. >> reporter: and cnn has learned that andrew brown's family through his attorneys is going to call for the local district attorney to recuse himself from the investigation and any prosecutiones in this case. one family attorney bakari sellers telling us that's because he has had extensive dealings in the past with local department's in the sheriff's department. brian todd, cnn. >> as brian reported there are growing calls for authorities in north carolina to release the body cam video that recorded andrew brown jr.'s death. the state's attorney general, josh stein, says laws also need to be changed to allow this type of video to be made public. here is more from stein. >> north carolina law was changed in 2016 and it declared that body cam footage is not a public record and that's backwards. the whole reason we have body

and dash cam footage is so that we can know what happened, the public will have more trust and faith in what law enforcement does when we can see what happened. so we need to change north carolina law, switch it so that it is a public record and if there's some valid investigative reason why the footage should be temporarily delayed, put onus on law enforcement to get that hold. >> north carolina's attorney general there. and former president george w. bush is speaking out about the future of the republican party and he's not holding back. bush says a lack of inclusion will make it difficult for the party to win again. here is part of what he told the podcast the dispatch. >> if the republican party stands for exclusivity, you know, used to be country clubs, now it's white anglo saxon protestantism, then it's not going to win anything. >> it's far from clear whether

the former president's words will have in the impact on current party leaders. the rift among republicans has only deepened in recent days with top voices on both sides digging into their positions. ryan nobles has our report. >> reporter: tensions in the republican party appear to be at a breaking point. the future of the gop unclear as two factions battle over the party's past and more specifically one question, do you buy into former president donald trump's false assertion that the 2020 presidential election was rigged? for wyoming congresswoman liz cheney the answer to that question is simple. the 2020 presidential election was not stolen, cheney tweeted monday. anyone who claims it was is spreading the big lie, turning their back on the rule of law and poisoning our democratic system. that message today from the number three republican in the house came shortly after trump himself doubled down on his claims about the election

results, issuing a statement where he attempted to twist the meaning of the big lie, instead applying it to biden's victory. cheney's vocal criticism of the former president and his willingness to continue to pedal a false narrative about election results have put republican leaders in a bind. they are not caught between not fully wanting to embrace trump's lies but not willing to break with the man who still enjoys strong support from the party's base. mitt romney once the party's nominee for president booed during a state convention. >> you might call me an old-fashioned republican. i am. oh, yeah, you can boo all you like, but i've been a republican all my life. >> reporter: as a result many republicans like house minority leader kevin mccarthy dance around the topic, leaning into the big lie by claiming there

were irregularities in november while praising trump and his presidency. >> if you want to unite this nation you have to start with having integrity in your elections. there are questions out here. >> reporter: mccarthy is worried ch cheney's public opposition of trump is hurting his party's chances to regain the house. while he originally defended her he is refusing to. >> is chain yeah still a good fit? >> that's a question for the conference. >> reporter: now house republicans are pushing once again for another vote challenging cheney's leadership, a showdown that could rip open the party divide in a big way and one main senator susan collins believes could make things worse. >> she did what she felt was right and i salute her for that. we need to be accepting of differences in our party. >> reporter: in the war of words between cheney and trump continues. cheney speaking at a private

conference to a group of donors did not back down in her attacks against the former president saying that his actions on january 6th represented a line that can never be crossed. meanwhile, the former president firing back as well, describing cheney as a war mongerer and predicting she will never hold elective office again in wyoming. ryan nobles, cnn, on capitol hill. another legacy of the trump administration remains in limbo. construction of a border wall between the u.s. and mexico was a centerpiece of trump's 2016 presidential campaign, now large sections sit idle across much of the southwest. ed lavandera has more on the miles that remain unfinished. >> reporter: fly straight east out of arizona and you will pass miles of rolling border wall built during the president george w. bush era, then it reveals a construction zone

frozen in time. steel border wall are left in stacks and construction equipment sits on staging grounds. just weeks before president biden was inaugurated the trump administration pushed ahead to build a four mile stretch of new border wall into the patagonia mountains. this is the end of the road, about 15 miles east of nogales, arizona, this is as far as the border wall construction got and what you see now is this carved out path sitting next to the pristine untouched landscape. >> so this trench, this is the footer where they hope to put their bollards, 8 to 10 foot deep trench. >> they literally stopped mid trench. >> lakin has spent years campaigning against the border wall in these remote areas of arizona. >> it's a bizarre between because we have this huge amount of devastation, this massive swath of land that's been blasted open and nobody knows what's going to happen next.

>> reporter: we revisit add number of the border wall construction sites we have reported on in the last year and this is what we found, dozens of sites along the border have turned from bustling construction zones to ghost-like scenes. >> there will not be another foot of wall constructed in my administration. >> reporter: vowing not to build another mile of wall, president biden stopped construction after taking office. about 200 miles of border wall that was being constructed now sit in limbo and funding is approved for about another 75 miles. the biden administration says it's reviewing the construction projects. >> i'm taking you to the border fence, it's up the road here. >> reporter: sheriff martinez in del rio, texas, takes us to what's supposed to be a two mile stretch of border wall. >> this is border wall that was started at the end of the trump administration? >> yes. this structure that you see here and that structure there.

>> reporter: it's replacing an old iron fence a few hundred yards away from the rio grande. >> i think it's foolish to leave this project as it is. >> reporter: construction equipment is still on site, deep trenches are dug out, the sheriff might scrub this little section of trump wall adds overkill but doesn't want to see it abandoned, either. there are also environmental concerns. at the end of the trump era crews were blasting into the guadalupe canyon in southeast arizona. when the biden administration took over construction stopped, but before leaving construction crews used the remnants of old steel border barriers to block access to the new wall. just a few months ago all you could hear out here was the sounds of heavy machinery, construction crews and explosive detonation blasting into the mountains. now it is eerily quiet. lakin says he wants to see construction money diverted to restoring the wilderness.

>> it is enraging, frankly, i am so tired of watching these beautiful landscapes pay the price of politics, of really poor decision-making. >> reporter: for anti-border wall activists the damage is done and the request he becomes how do you repair a mountain landscape that now looks like this? just to be clear not all border wall projects are coming to an end, just those that were funded by the trump administration by diverting money away from the u.s. military. now the biden administration must go through the process of paying out those canceled contracts. so there is still a lot of work left to be done on this issue and it is not going away anytime soon. ed lavandera, cnn, dallas. as the number of covid cases drop, europe is making plans to reopen. the restrictions that are being lifted. we will take a look.

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in france restrictions are easing with the number of new daily infections falling, now people can venture further from their homes without permission. it's part of a four-phase plan to ease the country's third lockdown. cnn's jim bittermann has more on all of this, he joins us live from just outside of paris. there he is. jim, thankfully covid cases are dropping, now these restrictions are easing. so what is the plan ahead. >> reporter: in fact, there's a couple of things going on here in addition to what you mentioned. the schools have been reopened here to some extent, the middle and upper schools classes came back yesterday. it remains to be seen how that's going to impact the covid situation, however. the elementary schools which came back a week ago had to close down, 1,800 classes across the country and prime minister said reassuringly that's less than 1% the number of classes in the country but they had to

close them down because one student tested positive and that's the rule here. if one student tests positive you have to close down the class. a different matter involving covid, the french are looking forward to the kind of things that are being discussed at the european level, the european commission set to take action sometime this week perhaps, they're looking tomorrow among the ambassadors of the european union at this green digital surveillance which for all intents and purposes is something like a covid passport, the idea is that to come into the european union visitors, hopefully travelers and tourists, will be able to come in this summer with the certificate by proves they have had a completed series of vaccinations within 14 days of their arrival. that's something that could help the tourism business and they are certainly looking forward to that, but it also has a lot of confusion surrounding it, for example, which vaccines are being talked about and it's still up to the individual

countries whether or not they could impose other kinds of restrictions like pcr tests and the rest of t rosemary? >> this is all very hopeful news. thank you so much. jim bittermann joining us there. appreciate it. calling it quits. billionaires bill and melinda gates file for divorce after nearly 30 years of marriage. we will have the latest on their plans to go their separate ways. when you skip the rinse with finish quantum, you save up to 20 gallons of water each time. finish quantum with activblu technology has the power to remove the toughest stains wiwithout pre-rinsing for dishes so clean they shine. join finish and skip the rinse to save our water.

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fans of grammy award winning singer billie eilish will be forgiven if they don't recognize her these days. this is eilish on the color of british vogue's june edition. the 19-year-old has swapped her trademark oversized clothing for a series of formfitting designer outfits. eilish was previously known for her bright green hair and baggy outfits. the singer says her fashion choices are all about body positivity and feeling good. wonderful. billionaire philanthropists bill and melinda gates have filed for divorce after 27 years of marriage. the couple announced their split on twitter saying they came to the decision after a great deal of thought.

they will continue to lead the bill and melinda gates foundation which has given more than $36 billion in charitable gifts sinceling launch. pretty incredible. john defterios joins me from abu dh dhabi. how much of a surprise was this announcement to the philanthropic world after appearing together for the last two decades at the u.n. and the world economic forum in davos. >> i think you hit the nail on the head, it's quite a shock for the charitable foundation world because they were such major players. i think actually redefined the whole sector, if you will. bill and melinda gates went hand in glove. i remember at davos, for example, year after year after year they'd sit side-by-side, pushing the next policy forward, the next target for eradication. you talked about the $36 billion they gave away. they're leaving this foundation at this stage, although they're

going to continue themselves with a revenue of $43 billion or the assets on hand for them. pretty extraordinary. but they had some candor in the tweet here, let's take a look at bill gates' tweet suggest that go they did a lot of work on our relationship, but we did make the decision to end our marriage. and then in a court document in seattle, washington, on the west coast of the united states, we are attribute blee broken is how he described the marriage. looking to keep it clean and amicable. three children, the last one just turning over 18 years old. perhaps that's the reason they decided to proceed in this direction right now. they have asked for privacy and did ask the court to follow the instructions or desires they have for the financial settlement, which they'd like to keep private. bill gates the fourth wealthiest man in the world, $124 billion, jeff bezos had $200 billion and now they share a common link here unfortunately that both their marriages are splitting

apart. so money does not buy you love in this instance, clearly not, rosemary. >> apparently not. john, what impact has the gates foundation had in the fight against diseases like smallpox, polio and malaria in africa and of course the wider developing world. >> reporter: yes, the target was very focused, latin america, africa, southeast asia. you might say that sounds very wide, doesn't seem to make a lot of hence but they honed in on those diseases that they thought they had the best chance to tackle. it made huge head ways no doubt about it. i think bill gates in particular redefined this idea what is a social entrepreneur and what is a philanthropist and when can you join them together. he even had a lot of influence on warren buffett his friend at brookshire hathaway who is giving $2 billion to the foundation but redefined his conversation with billionaires, what do you do with your money in the future? what's the best case for it?

bill gates good at technology wanted to apply that to the developing world, bring efficiency to the ngo community, some would suggest the foundation was too big, the bully on the block, but no one could argue with the progress they have made in the last two decades plus with bill and melinda together as a team and as you suggested staying on the foundation as co-chairs. >> they truly are two extraordinary people. they've given back a heck of a lot, haven't they? john defterios joining us live from abu dhabi, many thanks. and thank you for your company. i'm rosemary church. "early start" is up next. you're watching cnn. have yourselves a wonderful day.

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