used to diversity of opinion on the internet to. join a online session at the global media for today. this is d w news live from berlin president trump formally pulls the u.s. out of the world health organization says it of being a puppet of china it comes as u.s. states race to loosen their lock downs even as the virus relentlessly spreads will get 1st hand analysis from washington also coming up. a man who once dismissed covert 19 as quote just

a fluke now has the disease himself president of brazil's president also narrow told the world he's tested positive for the corona virus now will he change his stance on social distancing it will go to rio. plus is wearing a mask in public a civic duty or an infringement of civil rights to take a look at the cultural battle raging in the west over the wearing of face coverings in public during the pandemic. i'm told me a lot of thoughts good to have you with us the united states has announced its formal withdrawal from the world health organization this follows threats from the 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 with misinformation although he praised china's

handling of the outbreak at the beginning of the year the us was the largest financial contributor to the w.h.o. . let's cross over to w. washington bureau chief in a spall 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 job biden the candidate from the democrats already announced that he will kind of change this when he's the 1st day 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 trump accuses the hill 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 trying 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 all get more worried they are 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. 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 cost 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 that 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 was unclear whether brazil's president jaber bowls or not a was red faced with embarrassment or and but now we know it's certainty the man who has ridiculed steps to contain the corona virus has tested positive for it himself well have to wait and see whether both scenarios still believes as he said before that measures to prevent his fellow country men catching covert 19 on 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 rightwing leader confirmed to local media he had tested positive for covert 19 what a silly bit of it love is don't it on sunday with a certain feeling of being on well the cult was a monday with newsier tiredness a bit of muscle pain and a fever that reached 38 degrees in the wings of the new girlfriend 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 boss restaurants and other businesses are slowly reopening but people still have doubts

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 participants there have now been 11400000 cases of course at 19 and more than 535000 lives have been lost. the outbreak is accelerating. and we have clearly not reached the peak of the pandemic the motown folk and i see also wish to persist in present. a speedy recovery in his own battle against the current in the fires. more on this let's go over to

rio de janeiro where journalist mathias aber has been following this story for us but here's does this have any impact on balls and arrows 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 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 he can do so or if his research 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 both rove says he's taking the anti malaria drug pushed by u.s. president donald trump the doctors say the medication does not necessarily work

against covert 19 so why is also narrow 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 is no scientific evidence that cora king 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. they're just following his role model donald trump who's on the same path now 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 on our oh it's policies so far chorused that this crisis will be longer and will last longer this is one consequence of his politics and his 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 as a bird in real thank you. let's now take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world the number of people infected by the corona virus in chile has risen above 300000 surpassing the numbers in spain and the u.k. over 6400 people have died in the south american country from the virus despite the

rising numbers the health ministry has announced plans to relax lockdown measures. demonstrators have stormed the serbian parliament in the capital belgrade to protest a renewed lockdown president alexander which imposed a curfew and banned gatherings of more than 5 people after a surge in corona virus deaths 13 people died of cove in 19 on tuesday serbia's highest single day deaths on. german aid organization. says the coronavirus pandemic could push a 1000000000 people around the world close to starvation the charity has launched a campaign to support some of the world's poorest saying it needs to raise 10100000000 euros to help those who situation has worsened because of the pandemic . it's only been a few months and facemasks have become a part of everyday life in most parts of the world experts say wearing these

mosques is imperative when trying to slow the spread of the coronavirus but nowhere is the discussion iran mosque wearing probably as polarizing as in the u.s. far from being merely tired of the many people simply have never wanted to wear them are you going to allow the government to tell you you have to wear mass was. the time is now time for action thank you guys very much. anti maskers people who against the wide consensus of public health experts either want to limit mask wearing or are against them completely running any of them and similar reasoning over at the end i don't wear a mask for the same reason i don't on where underwear things got a brain i care were you. there were you was. was that it

was i was. i thought i was. where you are was that was the world. and on the other side critics have been taking the country's most prominent anti mask her so far to task and increasingly create a voice. was ruling and slow down. she loved her you are free and the face of the. free. world. here's a marketeer if he might have even gotten the message he started to change his tune as of late and we might have no problem actually i had a man is going to show like the way i look ok i thought it was ok it was a dark black mask and i thought of a joke and looked like the lone ranger but now i have no problem with it i think

you know and people feel good about of they should do it however the president's decreasing aversion to masks influences attitudes it will probably be mandatory mask wearing policies that will make the difference the number of states requiring nose and mouth coverings like new york and california are increasing but calls are getting louder for a nationwide masking paw. proponents say national measures would decrease infection rates and save the country from another round of shutdowns and an estimated trillion dollar hit to its economy something most people would welcome maybe even and he massacres. of the efforts to get professional sports up and running in north america faced yet more setbacks on monday the n.b.a. is making milwaukee bucks and sacramento kings close their practice facilities due to positive covert 1000 tests just as the basketball league prepares to resume its season in florida in all its off the f.c.

dallas and also monday that the team was withdrawing from the m.l.s. is back torment due to 10 of the clubs there is testing positive for the coronavirus. you're watching issue number you can always stay up to date on our web site www dot com follow us as well on twitter and instagram at told me all a lot of what is joining us. in the fight of climate change. africa's most of. what's in store for. morning news today for the future in the. coming pretty major cities to the multimedia insight could culture enter the conflict zones confronting the powerful

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