ends it. malaria must go on millions live. this is. from the u.s. president donald trump delivers an ultimatum to the world health organization the u.s. president calls the w.h.o. a puppet of china and threatens to permanently withdraw unless the u.n. agency makes changes within the next 30 days will an independent review of the w.h.o. help settle the dispute also coming up tonight in supercycle own heads towards

india and bangladesh forcing millions to flee but winds and rain are not the only threat the storm is also jeopardizing the country's virus response and is germany's top court says spying outside the country is unconstitutional but will ask does the ruling come at the cost of protecting national security. i bring to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome u.s. president donald trump has threatened to withdraw the united states from the world health organization and to permanently end it u.s. funding in a letter to the u.n. bodies director general trump accuses the organization of mishandling the global coronavirus response and demands change based on his criticisms and for those

changes to come within the next month beijing has described trump's comments as a smear campaign. was between donald trump. and china has continued into a 2nd day after the us president's public letter threatening to leave the w h a permanent lee on monday basically they have to clean up their act they have to do a better job they have to be much more fair to other countries including the united states so we're not going to be involved in the looser. president trump posted the open letter on twitter stating that if the w. does not commit to major substantive improvements within the next 30 days i will make my temporary freeze of united states funding to the world health organization permanent and reconsider our membership in the organization. china's foreign ministry criticized the u.s. president's threats made through the letter tried to

mislead the public in this plausible way to slander china's prevention and control efforts and shock the us his responsibility for incompetence in its own prevention and control this is futile. believe the movie. member states agreed to a comprehensive and independent review of the global pandemic response i am always definite job in mainz fully cover me to try to spot and see accountability and continuous improvement we want accountability more than anyone the review will take place quote at the earliest appropriate moment. well for more now i'm joined by andrew allman he is a harvard educated infectious disease specialist he's also a member of the german parliament the bonus talk for the business friendly f.t.p.

pardon mr only it's good to have you on the show let me ask you as a medical professional how what grade would you give the work of the w.h.o. . i would give it a c. minus to be honest because a lot of things didn't work very well as they do each show but we have to see what kind of institutional going to the scene can help us in a global pandemic and i only see the role of the deadly a show that could help the world to fight this pandemic but that. is dependent on all countries of the world and it's not a threat to the world is actually very helpful but all countries have to stay together be show solidarity work to reform w.h.o. where you say you give it a c. minus that's not a very good grade is that because the w.h.o. is underfunded is it all about money here it's not only about money but definitely

with money it could actually strengthen there are going to zation and if you look at the budget the w.h.o. it's a really very low budget it's we'd like to compare it here in germany with the great hospital at berlin the cherry take the budget the charity is larger than the w.h.o. and the funding of countries to the show is actually only one 5th of the total budget which is in my opinion far too low and you can only get a strong organization if you are strongly funded so you can employ people and get the system running the w.h.o. today agreed to conduct an independent review of basically itself and the things that it did during the beginning of this pandemic do you trust the w.h.o. to be able to carry out an impartial investigation into its own work. i think it is in this is the national organization 1st of all and i trust the w.h.o. that they could actually review their handling of what can be done better but on

the other side also all countries have to ask their questions how did they handle this pandemic in their own given country was the public health system up to the problems of 19 and i would say even the information that we received last year for the g.p.m. beat was very clear cut and they say we're not prepared for a pandemic and 900 x. a give us the proof that we were as a world as a global society not prepared for this. and now is the time not only to reform the w.h.o. but we have to review the international health regulations need urgent implementation and improvement for the future the criticism has been that the w.h.o. many times has been too lenient with china in order to keep china happy and also to keep that funding coming how do you see that as a doctor do you see the rules being bent for china. when i see is

that the w.h.o. is being a puppet many nations would agree to that point i think it's not appropriate that china says that taiwan cannot participate in w.h.o. i also would say it's not appropriate of the united states to say that the w.h.o. is not doing the work that's why you are not working together with him anymore i think we have to realize that health is a global issue it's for every person on this globe and we have to understand with global health and the security of global health actually is important for every nation in this world and house of understand out infectious diseases doesn't recognize borders and we have to really get our stuff together to be stronger as a single nation spouse a global society to improve our readiness for the next endemic which could be just

around the corner we do not know that yet. again the w h o should be strengthened not be all for any kind of political power play ok and your home and infectious disease specialist and a member of the german parliament mr owen we appreciate your time in your insides thank you thank you for having me. while most us states have begun to ease restrictions with business owners eager to reopen despite the potential health risks a new study suggests that about 2 percent of american small businesses will not survive this crisis. getting ready to reopen clichy china in the sez she cannot think of anything else salon in northeast washington one of the most successful small businesses in the neighborhood is struggling to survive. it's extremely hard i don't even know how hard is the word

to describe it's unbearable. we are suffering beyond belief and quite honestly i don't know how we're going to recover from this even though her own is closed she still has to pay her rent $6100.00 plus the utility costs and despite the existence of multiple relief programs with small businesses cushy china says it's impossible to get help i'm up countless hours applying like endless 234 o'clock in the morning i'm like waiting for applications to open they open there's a list in the system they close them up like you know and. nothing has panned out that one. we drive across the potomac river most of the neighboring state open ginia has already begun reopening gradually but some counties decided to wait much to the anger of many business owners we meet with

kimberly clark and stanley couth of the supreme court chamber of commerce 65 percent of their members are small businesses they are the mood it is just general question from the consistency i would say between federal local and state government the business owners again that i've spoken to want government to step back and let the business owners take take over. stelling cause his works as a community development manager with and respectable credit union he takes us to have branched me on by where they have already introduced changes like plexiglas barriers or enhanced cleaning businesses don't need the government to tell them what to do it saps this sense of the business owners that i've spoken to. really feel that they are capable now that they have more information opening their businesses in a responsible manner back of the beauty salon in washington d.c. reopening and staying safe that's what cliché china sutton want i miss being at

work i miss my team i miss my dad. so. she was determined to make her way back. her clients and her community clichy china says she expects a difficulty year on the hop but to survive she needs to reopen. we'll hear more of the latest developments in the 1000 pandemic the worldwide number of infections now stands at more than 4800000 that's according to johns hopkins university airways the national carrier of the united arab emirates made its 1st ever flight to israel today delivering medical aid to help combat the virus in the palestinian territories the u.a.e. and israel have no official diplomatic ties with each other can the united states have agreed to extend the ban on nonessential travel between the 2 countries for

another 30 days and the science journal nature says recorded global c o 2 emissions fell by 17 percent in april all because of these shutdowns from the pandemic. millions of people in india and bangladesh are fleeing their homes as a super cycle race is towards the border between the 2 countries so i clone is packing winds of quibbling to a category 5 hurricane it's expected to bring massive flooding and mudslides when it makes landfall on wednesday the storm is also complicating the country's response to the coronavirus pandemic. in the midst of a pandemic and packing winds speeds of up to 160 kilometers per hour supercycle known i'm high on is heading for bangladesh and india. but there are chances that will have had very fast and with covert 19 it's making the preparations for us the

people and for the government difficult and a big challenge. but they are racing to evacuate millions of people while trying to maintain social distancing in eastern india villagers and families are seeking refuge away from the coast in shelters and in buildings that had been repurposed for quarantining. the cycle own hasn't come yet but since the weather change we came here we didn't want to live in fear of the cycle and our hometown. some villagers are choosing to try to defend their homes from the tidal waves and flooding i'm han might bring. home really about we're piling up the sandbox to save our village from the supercycle all the villages are working here we're constructing a kind of which can hold off the sea water. and bangladesh physical distancing isn't possible as people boarded rafts heading for safety aid workers worry about

the spread of the coronavirus and about how people here will rebound from the fierce decide clone the country has faced and 21 years. don't know. about. thank lone on pine is expected to make landfall when say morning. let's take a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world protesters in the chilean capital santiago have clashed with police over a lack of food and essential supplies in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods people threw stones and lit fires local officials say the aid packages that they distributed are not enough to meet people's needs german prosecutors have dropped in charges of market manipulation against 2 top vokes wagon executives after the

carmaker agreed to pay $9000000.00 euros to close the case against c.e.o. robert d.s. and board chairman dieter putsch in 2 men were charged with withholding information about the existence of devices to cheat emissions tests. we're now into a major ruling here in germany that could change the way the country gathers intelligence secret intelligence the nation's highest court says that germany can no longer freely spy on the world's internet traffic it says the mass surveillance of online communications outside the country violates the constitution and its guarantee of the right to privacy and press freedom. germany's foreign intelligence agency has been spying on known germans abroad including journalists even without any clear suspicion of wrongdoing activists have long said this care tails freedom of the press now germany's highest court has ruled it's not legal the german constitution

office protection against wide sweeping surveillance to german citizens now this is being extended to people outside the country. the formation that's hard to go with has been placed with this side of the ruling as a milestone for the protection of journalists in the digital age that was for this is the 1st time that the constitutional court has recognized the need to safeguard the rights of journalists who are working abroad and that cunt the case was brought by the reporters without borders group 6 foreign journalists and human rights lawyer in its ruling the constitutional court did not outright ban blanket surveillance of data but judges said confidential communications between members of certain professions including journalists and lawyers must be offered special protection surveillance must be restricted to specific targets and controlled independently the court doesn't see any risk to germany's security through its rolling. sits keep us up startled grants substantial burden to make challenges to

global security policy through the monitoring of strategic international communications was a hoax a biggie. the german government will now consider the future operation methods of the foreign intelligence agency and reporters without borders says it will now consider a similar legal action in other countries. are all in our political correspondent thomas he's on the story here in berlin going to need to you thomas so germany's foreign intelligence has described this ruling as a setback in the fight against terrorism. is it well there are different views on this and it is definitely the case that some people have argued in that line brant that this is a setback for germany's intelligence gathering that this actually affects negatively the way germany can gather that intelligence and in particularly

difficult times when we're talking about cyber security for example whether we're talking about the fight against international terrorism so that's one side of the story the other side of the story we actually saw you know report those who are saying that this is actually a milestone this is actually something that defends press freedom the court actually said that it believes that it's in the public interest to gather that information but that he has to be done by germany's foreign intelligence agency in a way that complies with germany's constitution and so what will this ruling mean how will it change the way german foreign intelligence to operate abroad it can change any it probably will change but it's important to understand that germany's security apparatus or intelligence community is very complex both at the federal and its a regional level there are many different institutions and in fact the foreign intelligence agency the b.m.d. is the largest of all those institutions and something very important to understand

the political implications of this is that it's subordinated to the federal chances chancellor's office so that it gives you an idea of why this is important also politically and what the court actually said in that ruling today is that the b.m.d. is actually bound by the rights that a protected in the german constitution when he operates abroad and when it operate also on foreign soil for example when it conducts surveillance on foreigners i'm this is why this ruling is so important it has been described as a very important far reaching ruling by germany's top courting consul with what does this mean for the work of journalists or broad. well we saw also reporters without borders stressing that the government is now legally obliged to protect from surveillance the information in many cases confidential information that journalists may have when they are reporting a broader for example on issues of human rights violations or conflicts so it will

change the way that the relationship is between the v.n.d. germany's foreign intelligence agency and the way journalists work and that explains also why journalists were among the claimants here were among those who brought this case forward because they believe that this is particularly important to guarantee press freedom because specifically said that 2 rights were violated as of now one right being press freedom the other one the right to privacy of telecommunications so this gives you also an idea brant of how important this is for germany it's and landmark ruling that's how it's been described here in this country w.'s to my spirit with the latest tonight here in berlin thomas thank you. contact tracing finding people who have contracted to do covert 19 before they can spread the disease and tracing their contacts it's become a priority for governments around the world the scientists in south africa are developing an app that helps track those contacts if it works it could help make up

for a shortfall in the country's testing capacity. i feel that music city farm market in cape town before the pandemic the promise markets through 7000 visitors a day now just 700 to arrive and they are only allowed to buy essential under strict procedures. is what i'm doing today everybody comes to the market i take the full name. i explain to them the reason i'm doing it which is for practice tracing in the case of. being a notifiable disease the shoppers appear happy to cooperate i'm comfortable i understand why. and it's great that we can look at the port like local pride here. and. the people i know getting. the idea is that if there is a case of coronavirus at the market authorities can one of us who may be affected

by collecting people's names and contact details is an easy way to make contact tracing possible it is obviously not the most effective way and researchers at the university of cape town argue would make things easier and more effective. and. has overseen the development of the corvee id every participant can register online and will then receive a q.r. codes this can be safe to one smartphone or simply printed out as fewer than half of all south africans own a smartphone. i can now use the coby id at the time of verifying so that say i'm a taxi operate our i'm a security guard i want to scan use s q r codes as they come in so you can. scan. it shows my name it should look like a picture eventually it shows that i haven't been so off test that there is no

information about whether i have to cut from covert what has happened in the back and is that the app has sent a geolocation to the wallet of the user and it simply has found the address of that user by looking at the q.r. code the data is not stored centrally to address privacy concerns the data is only stored on the user's phones if someone tests positive he or she can agree to sharing the anonymous data with the public health authorities and to one of the users who where the same location. coordinates a team of $150.00 volunteers who develop the kovi id app today they're presenting their project in a vip samey not to political decision makers from several african countries much about the research shows that an article content tracing to work we can we need to identify 60 percent of the patients as soon as they have symptoms and we need to find 50 percent of them contacts basically instantaneously if you take even 456

days to figure out all the contacts that somebody was positive had and to follow up with them you will be too slow to effect it's nice curb the spread of the virus but the biggest problem is the insufficient testing capacity in south africa has already performed more than 350000 covered 19 tests by far the most of any african country but now lib oratory is are overwhelmed and often need more than 5 days to get a result something that no effort can fix there's still no indication as to whether south africa will introduce the app as an. nationwide project for the time being research shows up planning to test it here in cape town. where germany's museums have reopened to visitors and if you need a culture fix and if you happen to be to stay for the bike 160 years you're in for a treat one of the largest collections of the decades pop art is now one show with the berlin state museum. it wasn't just flower power in the sixty's.

in flint there's a bounty of it hardly anyone is familiar with now it's on display for the 1st time . so this is the moment to show everything we've accumulated it's one of the biggest collections of its kind in germany if not all of europe. the berlin state museum has an impressive collection of pop art including works by the artist who made it world famous andy warhol. culture for the masses as in stars as you did a new era in the art world shattering the monday features of everyday life landed on the big screen and canvas as pop art. the artist is went out into the world and discovered shopping malls and stores and supermarkets because they can free themselves from the bonds of artistic concepts and found reality. what's

less known is that pop art had its own 1960 s. birds and what was west germany. painters like printed his arguments series a revolutionary act of art. german pop art was more critical than its american counterpart less think big and more irony. american was very direct perhaps the most innocent aggressive and striking movement in contrast to european pop art work. in the great atmosphere of post-war europe when along came this offensive way with an almost a missionary spirit of commercialism guys has come with all the new products and bright images of the united states. in the u.s. and europe. with a male demain women were muses or sex objects pure projection just like in advertising as the old adage goes sex sells and that certainly applied to pop art.

but this exhibition turns that on and ted. a revelation. in the can man. a man wields a cook's quits could it be he's actually at work in the kitchen some would say now about the right kind of pop but and high time for it. thought if we could only go back this is. after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for that will be worth.

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