senators that are saying well we need more submarines we need more jet fighters in the fight in the east asia center and so they're taking advantage of the code crisis to demonize china and of course. you know there was already pointed out that the u.s. does like to have enemies and i would only agree with that statement i think the iranians don't realize that because there's an article today the new york times that saying you know your odds are pretty astute they're trying to you know call things down in the tensions between the u.s. and iran because they know it is an election year and i think historically you know social science research indicates that countries do this because specially with the united states because they know things get heated up in the election but certainly what we're saying is that republicans are trying to take advantage in this particular case of a crisis we had obama in a domestic crisis with the great recession his chief of staff said never a lot of crisis go to waste and what they did back then was to take advantage of the economic crisis to get. fairly unrelated

across east asia we're keeping an eye on what's happening to the southern areas of china. we had the stationary front bringing a decent amount of rain if the area. this will bring concerns of flooding and landslides as we go through thursday. chongqing into hong kong. taipei also looking at wet weather thursday. we have a chance for a system in the southeast in the united states. had some hail reported in the area earlier in the week. also wet weather coming up on wednesday. hope you have a good day wherever you are. >>> and that wraps up this edition of nhk "newsline." i'm raja pradhan in tokyo. there's much more to come on nhk world japan so please do stay with us. >>> welcome to "newsline" in-depth. i'm aiko doden. whether it's global trade or security, china's presence looms large in the international arena. space exploration is no exception and that's what we'll be probing into today. this is a rare image of the far side o of the moooon t taken by chinese satellite in january last year. the mission to capture this view added to china's growing list of achievements in

if you look at east asia first, then europe and north america, and now the outbreaks are moving to sub—saharanm east asia, a couple of lessons to keep your case is low. south korea is a particular paradigms with no new locally acquired infections in the last 24 hours and that is remarkable. the test, trace and isolate and go aggressively after the virus. secondly, protect your front line on health workers. third, surveillance, track the virus, where is it and when clusters emerge, immediately get on top of it. fourth, watch importation of cases. watch your borders that could set off local clusters. next, communication and be clear, straightforward and honest with the population. and finally, south korea has been lucky not to lock down, but if the situation arises like in singapore when cases ta ke arises like in singapore when cases take off, lockdown fast to get a handle on it, build up the public health infrastructure and then get out of lockdown as fast as possible. this is from doctor robert crowder. this is from doctor robert crowder. this is from doctor robert crowder. this is forjimmy,

i want to continue because i looked at the top south east asia on twitter feed and i saw a misnomer every expecting to cinch having done a number of stories many stories. just see nice. sample connections and it's doesn't change. the truth. and you can see that any situations that she. wants to take this. one are. multiple one. in. that are refugee space one has the right. documents not just about me i'm what might happen . in the. us. thank you yes i mean you already know by now this is the most densely populated country and it within that itself they have. a population who are refugees who are staying in a very small area and therefore any communicable disease not one you but any communicable disease would be. stating we have had a number of outbreaks there although the earlier on that like means all's and if the area but those who are able to be controlled. yes. there has been a lot of preparation done by all the u.n. and the international donor nurse in trying to ensure that the facilities are ready because until now we have a mole case off and he called it within the camp and this is

i know you have been studying online activism in south east asia but tell us why the milk tea alliance and you is this? it sounds just like young people trolling each other? that is right, this is the first time we have seen this type of movement of this scale in asia. it started off about a month ago between taiwanese and chinese on the recognition of hong kong and the presence of taiwan is after the chinese embassy in bangkok made a facebook post criticising those accused, if further prompted users tojoin in accused, if further prompted users to join in and then we saw a wave of other asian countries like vietnam, philippines, and india also expressing growing discontent and finally enough, the most recent country to join in is australia. some of the uses are also quite critical of their own governments. is there i worry they could end up being identified and punished? there is definitely a real concern but i think that with twitter being so recognised as a platform than other traditional media platforms, as well as facebook, many people, especially the younger generation are coming

tested more people per capita than any other place in the world and has exceeded many places in can east asia and europe in our responses to the pandemic without that no matter how radical the democrats are and no matter how mentally compromised their nominee republicans will get swamp in 2020. 7 i don't want to get into a fight with al that i can't really cause he's a video but i do cling to question some of the figures that he was using so president trump has said that the u.s. leads the world in 2 and a virus testing but i want to show you a chart which suggests that maybe the president got a little bit mixed up because united states testing but capita is down here and italy is on top but the actual numbers of tests that we know the 10000000 about. excuse me right about now yes exceeds the well but not per capita does arguments like this does it matter these the things that we're going to be talking about come election time in november oasis trivial. i believe it deftly i trivial i think it's important not just to have this conversation now because you know it's material to this pandemic b

regimes, some democratic governments, which are dealing with this quite effectively, whether it is in east asian, whether it is new zealand or germany or greece. so i don't think it is a question of only the authoritarian systems. you are right, of course, that in a time of emergency when people are afraid for theirjobs, for the future, for their very lives, there is a built—in tendency in humans to wish for some saviour, for some strong man, and it's almost always a man, that will save us and knows everything and will protect us. but this is very dangerous. i don't think the historical indicates dictatorships are always better than democracies in dealing with these kinds of situations. yes, dictatorships have one big advantage, which is that they can act faster, because the dictator doesn't need to consult anybody. hejust makes up his mind and says, "0k, do that." and that's an advantage, certainly, but it's also a huge disadvantage. because if the dictator makes the wrong decision, for whatever reason, it's usually much harder to admit a mistake and to try some other course of action. the dic

police in myanmar have seized what's been described as south east asia's biggest ever haul of synthetic

los angeles california by jonathan pollack, who is a nonresident senior fellow in the center for east asiaon. has the outbreak excluded old fault lines between china and the united states were created new ones as look to some extent it has created new wins but i think it's reflective of a very grim atmosphere present in the us china relationship. the question is whether or not in this context there would be the possibility for any resumption of tolerable cooperation. in the trumpet ministration seemingly trying to use china —related issues in the upcoming residential campaign. can it powerful superpower like china and the united states learn to coexist? i guess the short a nswer learn to coexist? i guess the short answer is that they better find ways to coexist. there seems to be these kinds of very accusatory mood at present, love this falls back on established positions and really makes it much more problematic for dealing with issues, including covid—i9. it seems he the chinese are calling for accelerated multilateral cooperations for the world health organisation and the trumpet minist

i think we'll have to concentrate on preventing the risk that the curve — that began in east asia anda — will not have a new surge in central asia and in africa, because this is a real danger for these countries and for the global situation. thank you very much indeed. i hope that answered your question. let's go now to yangon and myanmar, and danish. danish, over to you. my daughter wanted to ask a question. how will our privacy be affected after the coronavirus, keeping in mind the privacy being affected after 9/11? oh, so, she's worried about surveillance. all right. thank you very much indeed. paolo gentiloni. i know that here again, we need a balance between two different fundamental targets and rights — the right to privacy and the right of safety in our communities. but you can break this balance only in the cases when an outbreak is there, and in extraordinary circumstances. we can't use measures against privacy in a massive and permanent way. tony blair, do you agree with what paolo gentiloni has been saying? i agree with paolo, yes. i think that it's a balance that you're go

or big concern, not only here in myanmaror in big concern, not only here in myanmar or in south east asiaften that on top of all of the adversities and of —— on top of all the difficulties faced by migrants who are by the definition is very vulnerable category of people, many of them could not be given access to the minimal level of services that they are of course entitled to. we of course entitled to. we of course call all the governments of the world to do more for migrants, to do more for them of course not to be in a situation like the one we just saw during the past weeks here in southeast asia but also for all governments to include migrant populations in their response to covid—i9. too often migrants are left aside or forgotten or overlooked in the public health response of the states and of course the icrc is joining states and of course the icrc isjoining its voice states and of course the icrc is joining its voice with other humanitarian organisations to ask and to call governments to do more for those migrants populations and for those to be treated with dignity and with all t

from sars, about some of the lessons from sars, a previous pandemic that had a very big impact in east asiadibly important that we learn as much as we possibly can about the strategy for future pandemics, exactly, as you say, so that future generations can be as prepared as possible. thanks, chris. we will now turn to questions from journalists. the first is from the bbc. you have described this new test and trace programme as it being oi'i test and trace programme as it being ona test and trace programme as it being on a scale never test and trace programme as it being on a scale never seen test and trace programme as it being on a scale never seen it before, but are you sure you have sufficient capacity to test the contacts of all of those infected? you referred to there being around 2000 newly infected people in the uk every day, but the office for national to stay that figure at around 9000 for england alone —— the ons? that figure at around 9000 for england alone —— the 0ns?|j that figure at around 9000 for england alone -- the ons? i will give a very short answer and ask dido to give

the coronavirus pandemic thousands of indian nationals being repatriated from the middle east and southeast asia special flights have been chartered to bring back ex-pats from singapore kata the u.a.e. and saudi arabia india naval ships have also been deployed to bring citizens back from the mall the elizabeth problem has more from new delhi. the 1st of 2 flights touched down between the united arab emirates and the southern state of care that on thursday night and more have followed today landing in the capital new delhi in india administered meade this is what's being called phase one of a 5th operation that will take all of may and maybe 15000 people will be brought home from 12 countries all 64 flights but hundreds of thousands of indians have registered to come back to put that into context the united states is for patrick at something like 80000 and european nations together something like 65000 and it's not just planes naval warships are involved to have arrived in to bring something like a 1000 stranded indians back everyone to screened before and after getting on these flights and train

eisenhower's view of east asia, mao zedong, it was still closely aligned to the soviets. in 1954, the soviets refused to sell the chinese submarines. in 1958, the chinese's refused to put up transponder-y stations so that the soviets can control their submarines in the pacific via china. there's already lots of-y tensions. the biggest intelligence failure -- sailor of the post 1950 period is the length of time it takes the west to realize that the eastern block is fundamentally divided and that provides strategic opportunities for the west. as far as the middle east is concerned, eisenhower believed, like most of our american policymakers, democrats and republicans, that it would be possible to-y take these newly independent ex-colonies and turn them into pro-american liberal-y democracies -- independent x communist ex-communist colonies and turn them into pro-american liberal democracies. he regarded israel the cause of instability and he was angry about the 1956 war. -y i wouldn't say that he was necessarily lacking in understanding of the world. as president and the sa

thousands of internationals are being repatriated from the middle east and southeast asia special flights have been chartered to bring back ex-pats from singapore cats are the u.a.e. and saudi arabia the goal is to return at least 400000 citizens stranded because the coronavirus indian naval ships have also been deployed to bring people back from the mall. the european commission is pushing for a ban on nonessential travel to europe to be extended on seoul june you countries started blocking foreigners from entering in mid march to stop the spread of the virus now the block is proposing an extension to the external border closures until june 15th 2 men in the united states have been charged with the murder of an unarmed black man i'm odds are barry was shot dead in february but the former police detective on his son were not arrested until a video of the shooting was released this week world leaders have martha 75th anniversary of ve day the end of the 2nd world war in europe restrictions because the coronavirus pandemic prevented planned street parties from going ahead those are the head

magazine highly respected internationally 7 days ago however was saying when this drug was trialed in east asia it did not come back it was not returned with phase positive results why is there a disconnect there yeah i think what we're seeing is it depends on the situation under which you use it if you use it early in the course of disease we're starting to see treatment benefits if you use it late in the course of disease and i think it's much harder to show a benefit in addition and that's the reason for the clinical trials people in china may have been put on a whole variety of the rarity of different drugs and things so you really want to know what's the effect specifically on this entire viral and also when they start using it in a much bigger much more kind of far reaching way than they've been testing at and filing it so far will they be able to change it accordingly depending upon individual patients individual experiences of it. you know that's a very good question peter and part of what needs to be done is to study what's called the pharmacokinetics of the drug in people that are at

thousands of indian nationals are being repatriated from the middle east and southeast asia specified to have been chartered to bring back ex-pats from singapore qatar the u.a.e. and saudi arabia. 2 men in the united states have been charged with the murder of an unarmed black man ahmad's are bery was shot dead in february but the former police detective and his son were not arrested until a video of the shooting was released this week. while the european commission is pushing for a ban on nonessential travel to europe to be extended until june countries started blocking foreigners from entering in mid march to stop the spread of the virus and now the block is proposing an extension to the external border closures until june 15th currently only health care workers and researchers from non e.u. countries can enter. so one of the industry's worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic has been the airline industry departures from the u. case 10 biggest airports have fallen by about 90 percent since the country shut down at least 4 airlines have entered administration or shut down completely u.

let's speak to our south east asia correspondent jonathan head who is in bangkok.past few hours, then. how much further this is going to be loosened? well, we have seen a return to some kind of normality on a sunday. shopping malls in this very hot part of the world tend to be the public gathering places for many people. we have got some of the biggest malls in asia here. they have opened up. they are putting a lot of restrictions in place. the malls are so supposed to restrict numbers so that there is at least five square metres per person. people are in their temperature is taken, they people are in their temperature is ta ken, they must people are in their temperature is taken, they must wear masks. everyone wears masks here anyway, they have been doing that for weeks. they also have to scan a qr code into their phones and put down their details so they can be tracked down if it is ita details so they can be tracked down if it is it a shop where somebody is later discovered have been infected with covid—19. it is a very cautious second stage of an easing of a lo

his words helped inspire and mobilize anti-colonial movements in regions from africa to east asia. good on failure to make his perceived promises led to anti-colonial activists including ho chi minh, mao and others to look to bolshevism for support. it's no accident that the chinese commonest party was founded in 1921. self-determination became an essential principle of international widget missy where it persisted. franklin roosevelt, who had served the wilson administration and spent a few days in paris as part of the u.s. administration. franklin roosevelt recommitted to that principle during world war ii when he compelled the reluctant winston churchill to be included specifically inside the atlantic charter. churchill had to go back and explain why that didn't apply to india and other british possessions. fdr also took it further, particularly as it applies to territories outside of europe. is research i am working on right now so i could talk about it at length. indeed, support for self-determination's and their incorporation into institutions of international governments whe

his words helped inspire and mobilize movements and regions from north africa to east asia including korea, and those who want to read a book about that, it is in the bookstore. [laughter] failure to make good on his perceived promises of self-determination led some anti-colonial activists look tog ho chi minh to bolshevism for inspiration and support. it is no accident the chinese, founded in 1921. after 1919, self-determination became a central principle of international legitimacy. roosevelt, who had served in the wilson administration as assistant secretary of the navy during the war and during peace negotiations, spent a few days in paris as part of the u.s. delegation. franklin roosevelt recommitted the united states to that principle of self-determination during world war ii when he compelled the reluctant winston churchill to include it explicitly in the atlantic charter. churchill had to go back to london and explain to everyone why that did not apply to india and other british possessions. took it further, this principle that wilson had, particularly as it applied to territ

well let's speak to bridget welsh about this she's senior research associate at the center for east asia democratic studies at the national taiwan university and author of embracing democracy democracy how malaysians think about politics she is via skype from kuala lumpur very good to have you with us on al-jazeera brigitte tellus 1st about the reasons i mean malaysia has reported a little over 6000 cases of covert 1000 in over 100 deaths which is relatively low compared to other countries in the region why are the authorities taking such drastic measures against migrant workers. well there are 2 things going on 1st of all malaysians done a very good job of cut flattening the curve and it's opening up a lot of her businesses starting on monday so i think that there are concerns about the potential flashpoints of the virus starting again and of course the events in singapore dr drew attention to this in the migrant community and it malaysia has around $6000000.00 migrants and of course this is a very large number and the government is trying to get a handle on it that but they're doing it

getting away from china and trying not to lean on china, they want to build relationships with south east asiaurse america. trump has come along in a convenient time and many things going on with this trade war and other things, it has been the spark. trump has kick started a lot that was already in process. lpan, thank you so much. i cannot say enough about reading him regularly to understand taiwanese business and economics. drivel continue to forward the economics, particularly of america. peter hooper will join us of dark too -- deutsche bank. futures up fractionally. retail sales, we will look for those later in the new york morning as well. please stay with us, from new york and london, this is bloomberg. ♪ there are times when our need to connect really matters. to keep customers and employees in the know. to keep business moving. comcast business is prepared for times like these. powered by the nation's largest gig-speed network. to help give you the speed, reliability, and security you need. tools to manage your business from any device, anywhere. and a team of experts - here for you

transportation system simply can't handle that and we're already seeing this problem in parts of east asia and we'll talk a little bit about more later in this presentation about our efforts to get ahead of the problem. we did have one fatality in april. it was a single-vehicle crash, vehicle ran off the road on april 21st on the hill and that crash is still under investigation by sfpd and we have implemented some temporary barricades and other quick response efforts to make sure that never happens again. a key thing we want to update you on is the slow streets work that sfmta has been working on since the middle of last month. i'm sure all of you know by now, in response to the shutting down of three quarters of muni transit lines, the sfmta stepped forward to try to identify corridors that would allow more san franciscans to feel safe walking and we start off-the-record with a modest effort focused on neighbourhoods that have lost the most transit service, specifically the our initial efforts around our push to move things forward and our lack of communication they are complaints why can

where we started with the joint venture, and we will continue to look at other parts of thousand east asialot of opportunities. rishaad: are you profitable? , what about your ipo plans? >> yes. we are profitable. havee very fortunate we been profitable since 2017. what we are looking about in time -- what we are looking at in terms of ipo plans, it is not at the top of the agenda right now. we are making sure everything works and the customers love our proposition and being able to scale regionally. we will continue to monitor the macro situation. rishaad: one last word on the cash drop. it up into noncustomers of your bank, etc.? what about retention? how do you retain those people? anyou don't have to be existing customer. anyone can apply. duringective of this is this difficult time, we need to look beyond these business opportunities to see how we can help and contribute and support. see how we want to can help as many people as possible. people of the customer experience. we hope to help a lot more people in hong kong. thank you so much for joining us today. still to come, new zealand

once it's out of the way it's a fairly benign picture for most south east asia indeed the next action is in the bay of bengal on this cluster of thunderstorms also want to watch it's a very slow developer but it looks like turning into a cycle in the next 3 days over water a lot of rain still to come home has been quite a lot in kerala it was finals go. back . to when these young street kids were filmed in the indie little could they have imagined that 30 years later they'd be reunited on camera. an intimate portrayal spanning a lifetime probes the twists and tans of friendship survival and the quest for meaning. in another life i witnessed documentary on al-jazeera. move. toward the arm. welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here on al-jazeera a whistleblower in the u.s. has told a congressional hearing the nation could be facing its darkest winter in modern history dr rick bright says he was removed from his government post because he raised concerns over the white house coronavirus response 3000000 people have filed for unemployment benefits in the u.s. in the last week th

it evolved out of another operation in south east asia. goal was to distract from chemical off biological weapons and bring new development inside the soviet union at the time. on operation is fascinating a number of levels. one of them is they have picked up the rumor, the conspiracy theory that aids is an american creation. they didn't come up with it themselves. they picked it up from american conspiracy theorists in the lgbtq -- at that time called gay community where it was making the rounds already. that leads to two fascinating observations. one, sometimes the most --ective active measures that is in fact also the case. the second one is imagine you are the kgb officer writing that memo. so you are a partner from germany asking them to help you spread the myth. one is, you are telling them to do it and they will not understand what is disinformation and what is correct information because it is a blend. what you see internally is a thatof self disinformation large bureaucracies when they engage in these campaigns over tors will lose

police in myanmar have seized what's been described as south east asia's biggest ever haul of syntheticrugs. crystal meth and heroin were among the substances found in raids in northeast shan state. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are polly mackenzie, chief executive of centre—left political think tank demos, and sebastian payne, whitehall correspondent at the financial times. tomorrow's front pages, starting with. .. a hopeful lead story on the front page of the times, which reports on potential plans for "air bridges" between countries this summer. the transport secretary, grant shapps, says quarantine on all arrivals into the country could be relaxed, with deals between countries with low coronavirus infection rates. the telegraph is leading on the same story, and says quarantine—free travel to and from countries like france and spain will depend on the status of their own epidemics. on the front of the metro, a warning from kings college london that up to 200,000 people may not have self—isolated when they needed to a

thousands of indian nationals are being repatriated from the middle east and south east asia special flights have been chartered to bring back expense from singapore qatar the u.a.e. and saudi arabia the goal is to return at least 400000 citizens indian naval ships have also been deployed to bring people back from the mold hundreds of thousands of indians have been asked to be brought home after being stranded by a coronavirus travel restrictions on them has more from new delhi. the 1st of 2 flights touched down between the united arab emirates and the southern state of care that on thursday night and more have followed today landing in the capital new delhi in india administered this is what's being called phase one of a full face operation that will take all of may and maybe 15000 people will be brought home from 12 countries all 64 flights but hundreds of thousands of indians have registered to come back to put that into context the united states is repatriated something like 80000 and european nations together something like 65000 and it's not just planes naval warships are invol

to the extent to which china moves 'd to militarize those relationships for example both in south east asia and across the so-called string of who that is. maritime bases in the in the indian ocean states particularly sri lanka and bangladesh little certain pakistan and now prospective iran. and already in djibouti in the red sea where china is beginning to form deploy naval and air assets and these are the sorts of assets where belton vote could really turn into a staging ground for cold war style confrontation with the united states. so under those circumstances if we begin to see the american push back in those that country says then it's not a large gap between what we now have which is an emerging as it were a diplomatic chasm for that to become a chasm of assuming more military characteristics it seems to have so many ak o's of the last cold war between the united states and the soviet union there is one fundamental difference between then and now in the 20th century cold war the american and russian economies have virtually no ties with each other in the 21st century between the u.s.

the bottom line is this virus as it traverses the globe and geographically makes its rounds from east asiao the united states, now brazil, the bottom line is we continue to initiate and proceed with social distancing, handwashing, wearing a mask, contact tracing, that is the bottom line, that is what we need to focus on, not crying over spilled milk. everyone is in this together, we shouldn't be throwing our hands up. as a medical doctor we are all responsible, we need to take part in what is going on in our state and our community. rob: doctor silverberg writes don't blame the model because it is only as good to the information it is that. don't that the stream of new are differing projections turn you off. it is because different models may be based on different assumptions and are updated to take into account our current, present, and future, as they slide into our past. your thoughts? >> i will not be as terrible as a doctor about this. we've made multi-trillion dollar decisions based on very faulty science over the last 6 or 8 weeks. books will be with about the incredibly bad science

line is, mike, that this virus as it traverses the globe and geographically makes its rounds from east asiao the united states, now to brazil. the bottom line is that we need to continue to initiate and proceed with social distancing. hand washing, wearing the mask, contact tracing. testing and things, that's the bottom line and what we need to be focused on. not crying over spilt milk. everyone is in this together. we should not be throwing her hands up. as a governor, we are -- and medical doctor, we are all responsible and need to take part in what is going on in our state and community. >> mike: from salon icu mara silverberg writes don't blame the models, it's only as good as the information fed. and don't let the conscious turn your off. it's because different models could be based on different assumptions and are b, taken into account the current, present, and future. steve, your thoughts. >> i'm not going to be as charitable as the doctor is about this. we made multitrillion, trillion dollar decisions based on very faulty science over the last six or eight weeks. and books will be w

or what was his view with respect to the middle east and asia? i mean, he seemed to understand europe well. he kind of left it to his successors to deal with -- nixon dealt with moving china away from the russian war bit. there is where the middle east was moved in a more pro-american way. did eisenhower just not care much about that part of the world, other than in suez and ending korea, or did he -- >> that's an excellent question. you're asking me about pretty much the whole of the world there, so let's see if i can very quickly summarize. for most of the policymakers of the period, the priority was very much europe. maybe it was excessively europe, but that was very much europe. eisenhower's view on east asia, on china -- at that stage, china, mt. setoning was closely aligned with the soviets. western intelligence wasn't picking up the strains between them. 1954, for example, the soviets refused to sell the chinese submarines. in 1958, the chinese refuse to put up transponder stations so that the soviets can control their submarines in the pa

it was a big part of eastern medicine and east asia. , folksearly 18th century in the americas were a little bit more willing to experiment with it and adopted pretty part becausearge of their contact with west africans and their familiarity. did notern europeans really sanction the practice until the mid 18th century. prior to that, they relied on which isquarantine, similar to the social distance practicing we are doing now. it still leaves the infected in a vulnerable position and does not do anything to prevent the disease from spreading if it already is. a big part of my work is focusing on maritime at different coastal ports. >> that's really interesting that you talk about the ways discussions of slavery. meanwhile, discussions here have been racialized, too. if i try to think about what has been happening in the late 19th century, when you think about questions of differential blame, xenophobia, and labor, i'm going to try to share an image. it looks like it is disabled. one of the things that is so fascinating to me about this photograph from 1898 is that it station inipping

here we don't know and we should be humble, but everything we've seen from all the experiences in east asia and europe is that once you get it and once you truly clear t you should be good to go for a while. is that 12 months? 18 months? six months? we don't know. i'm guessing there's an explanation here that's not about people getting reinfected. >> i wonder if we can, put up the map of the united states which has become this quilt that we're looking at every day about where cases are rising, the number of new cases going up and where they're dropping. it's a third, a third, a third. in 18 states the number of cases, new cases are dropping. in 15 it's steady, in 17 they're going up, and sanjay, one of the states we are looking at most closely this morning is texas, where they had their single biggest spike in new cases over the weekend. there may be reasons for that. it may be because they're testing more, may be because they're testing more around meat packing plants in amarillo where these cases have known to come out, but what does this tell you? >> i think they are doing more directed

anchor: thousands of internationals are being repatriated from the middle east and south east asia.cial flights have been chartered to bring back ex-pats from singapore, qatar, the uae, and saudi arabia. the goal is to return at least 4000 citizens. naval ships have been deployed to bring people back from the maldives. hundreds of thousands of indians have been brought home after being stranded by travel restrictions. our correspondent has more from new delhi. correspondent: the first of two flights touched down between the uae and the southern state, and more have followed today, landing in the capital of new delhi. this is what is being called phase one of a four phase operation that would take all of may and nearly 16,000 people would be brought home from 12 countries on 64 flights. but hundreds of thousands of indians have registered to come back. to put that into context, the united states has repatriated some 80,000, and european nations together, something like 65,000. it is not just planes. naval warships have arrived in the maldives to bring something like 1000 stranded ind

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