this is the dublin news live from president trump formally pulls the u.s. out of the world health organization he accuses it of being a puppet of china comes as u.s. states brace to loosen their lock downs even as the fire virus relentlessly spreads forget 1st hand analysis from washington also coming up a man who once dismissed covert 19 asked just a little flu now has the disease himself brazil's president jalal also now told the world he's tested positive for the coronavirus who will he change his stance on

social distancing or to real world class pro-democracy activist in hong kong call for international support as they comes to contend with a new security situation rich nations trying to balance human rights and international trade with billions of dollars worth of business at stake. i'm told me a lot of well it's good to have you with us the united states has announced its formal withdrawal from the world health organization it follows threats from u.s. president donald trump to leave the w.h.o. over disagreements about how to respond to the global pandemic trump accuses the u.n. agency of quote pushing chinese misinformation although he praised china's handling of the outbreak at the beginning of the year the u.s. was the. largest financial contributor to the w.h.o.

. let's cross over to the washington bureau chief in s. pole innocent president trump has been threatening that the u.s. would withdraw the application is now in this is official but it comes into effect in a year and they'll be elections in november so where does this leave the us. right so a good deal by even the candidate from the democrats already announced that he will kind of change this when he's the 1st stay in office and as the elections are taking place in november and then he might joe biden might be sworn in generally that would leave him enough time to take this withdrawal back and trump accuses the w.h.o. of not handling the crisis well this current of ours crisis meanwhile his critics say he is not handling the crisis well what do americans think.

right so i mean this is another political stand right i mean the figures here in the united states are just devastating we learned that in texas today we had 10000 new infections there already more than 130000 americans died of the virus we have more than 3000000 americans being infected so the situation is tense and this is another scapegoat of trump he kind of once to push the guild over to we age oh to say that they didn't handle the so-called china iris that's how he called calls covert 19 they didn't handle that crisis well in that he does everything well but i have to say the mood in the country is changing slowly with all these figures people i'll get more warry really afraid of catching it of getting seriously sick or even dying specially know is in many places the hospitals

are just totally overwhelmed in florida they are running out of 1st care beds hospitals in. some texas cities are running out of space so the mood is slowly changing. as you mentioned the numbers of infections are astounding as well as the rate at which people are getting infection infected yet there are plans to reopen schools what's behind that. yes right he says you know the costs of keeping kids longer at home are higher than the costs of the virus itself so what's behind that he already pushes businesses to open again he wants to go back to normal as his biggest fear is the economy keeps shrinking and to know is that really will diminish his chances to get reelected in november and that's basically all he cares for that is more important for him than the health and the safety of the people of the united states in

a spall in washington thank you for that assessment under his face mask it wasn't clear whether brazil's president jailed bulls or not all was red faced with embarrassment or anger but now we know with certainty the man who was ridiculed steps to contain the corona virus has tested positive for it himself we'll have to wait and see whether balls and arrows still believes as he said before that measures to prevent his fellow countrymen catching covert 19 not worth the effort. from the very beginning of the outbreak of which i have also repeatedly played down the risks of the corona virus and initially described this as a little flu he also flouted social distancing recommendations and other measures including wearing face masks in public. has been tested 3 times previously all came back negative however on cheese day the brazilian right-wing day to confirm to

local media he had tested positive for covert 19 or soon to be a bit of a well it's don't it on sunday with a certain feeling of being on well the cult with a monday with nausea tiredness a bit of muscle pain and of fever that reached 38 degrees in the lanes of the new girls i then thought that with the sentiments and with the presidential doctor believing it to be a possible curvy 1000 infection i had a c.t. scan at a military hospital here in brasilia my lungs were clear. brazil is the 2nd worst hit country in the world after the us with more than 65000 deaths and at least 1600000 coronavirus cases. despite this pass restaurants and other businesses are slowly reopening the people still have to outguess and they're getting as long as we follow the safety measures have space

between the tables i think it's worth reopening but we are the only ones in here but if for instance there's someone on another table i think i would probably feel uncomfortable the w.h.o. has one the pandemic is far from over as it's taking its toll around the world bodies. that have now been moved 11400000 cases of corbett 19 and more than 535000 lives have been lost. the outbreak is accelerating and we have clearly not reached the peak will be pondered weak the motown folk in isolation also wish to pursue president. a speedy recovery in battle against the crew from the fires. more on this let's go over to rio de janeiro where journalist mathias aber has been following this story for us when he has does this have any impact on ball sonars ability to be president.

he says he will go on as before he just wants to govern the country by his presidential palace where he lives he going to make some video conferences go on as before because his symptoms so far are not really strong so he's going to doing trying to do this but in the end it depends on severe rooty of his symptoms if you can do so or if his recent president. will have to take over at one moment so far it seems he's trying to do it by the year the times are now really turbulent here in brazil it's not sure what's going to happen the next days into both rove says he's taking the anti malaria drug pushed by us president donald trump the doctors say the medication does not necessarily work against covert 19 so why is bowles and our taking it. he simply believes in it he says

so 2 hours ago he talked to his followers on a facebook live message saying on camera that taking a pill of clerking in front of the camera and saying that he believes in it knowing that there's no scientific evidence that chloroquine really works so he's ignoring a recent study done in man hours the amazon capital of brazil where scientists showed that it can cause heart attacks so. just following his role model donald trump who is on the same path when some political leaders get infected they change their policies others don't and let's look at brazil the country is registered over 1200 additional coronavirus deaths on chuse day alone how do you think this will impact both on our own is policy so far chorused that this crisis will be longer and will last longer this is one consequence office politics

and its policy to reopen for example shopping centers and restaurants and i think he might not change his views and his opinion on the crisis because his motto is business 1st economy 1st in order to be reelected in 2 years so i think he will stay the same president as before and all the signs that we see so far are going to the same direction again much is a vote in real thank you. china says it has opened an office of its security agency in hong kong for the 1st time the move comes just over a week after beijing imposed a controversial new security law on the territory the law makes it easier for beijing to crackdown on popular protest it came into force despite a year of protests now one of the best known figures in hong kong's pro-democracy

movement is just show wong and we spoke with him earlier and he was defiant about keeping up with the push for political reform in hong kong political crisis because system reform escalating the situation and even allowing police to call their house search warrant and overwrite one common law system by the mainland rule by a hotline. that's not the way out no matter what happened was there continue to fight for freedom and also we wish the world to know that how the rest of hong kong people and ex-pat live in the hall might be extradited to china and we might not be serving joe sentence at home and more and we might need to sort this out joe's and that's in beijing that's the french generated by beijing live sentencing is not the things that we have imagined by activists in the previous day but that's not the phrase the fret generate by the covers off or. ours hong kong

democracy democracy activist joshua was speaking to us earlier and western governments are finding themselves in a dilemma over how to react to the new security law they don't like it but they have to tread carefully because china is an important trading partner. street battles and angry crowds in hong kong pretty in europe the protesters so far come in words alone the e.u. has criticised the hong kong security law that several european countries have new economic ties with china for instance through the belgian road initiative which could make them reluctant to point a finger at beijing. germany which no holds the e.u. council presidency might be expected to use its leverage to get tough with china but chancellor merkel hardly sounds urgent dimensionally its functioning human rights questions are always on the agenda you know by lateral talks with china that

includes a human rights dialogue which we want to continue at least here. china is germany's biggest trading partner more than 200000000000 euros worth of goods are traded between the 2 countries annually but no government wants to be seen to tread softly when fundamental rights are being challenged. there are calls for a more robust approach from an unexpected quarter the leader of germany's business friendly free democrats on. kong was a place with a lively civil society as well as great economic freedom and the rule of law both of those are now being called into question we should not make it a question of either economy or democracy we should make the case for the idea of freedom and for reliable agreements. for now the e.u. is pressing ahead with plans to hold a summit later this year hosted by the german government but that risks sending

a signal that relations can continue largely unaffected by the scenes in hong kong some believe this might be the moment for berlin to take a stand. people in hong kong have in recent months been quite disappointed by the reaction in germany it's been noted that germany really basically doesn't say anything in public and is very has a very weak response to pressure from china there is a sense that germany's not living up to to its you know to expectations at this point the chancellor's instinct is to keep dialogue open and push for change behind the scenes. but as china shows its growing assertiveness in hong kong europe's values are being tested. don't forget you can always get the news on the go download from google play all from the app store that'll give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news and if you're part of a news story you can always use or you can also use the date of you have to send us

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