donald trump is not one vote a wartime law ordering plants to stay open to avoid any shortages alan fischer as more. empty shelves might become the new normal for a while some stores have run out of meat and there's no sign of when they'll get you deliveries more than a dozen meat processing factories have been forced to close because of covert 19 the system requires workers standing close together in a pattern repeated across the country one gets sick many others inevitably fall in neat asa sink. the work by its very nature is very crowded people have to standard very closely together as they're working on the line to processed it isn't it that are going by very very quickly the closure of factories for missouri to colorado from virginia to south dakota creates a real problem in the supply chain farmers know have thousands of animals they need to feed and how use not something that budgeted for we've got to be able to move to move our cattle further along in the process and right now there's a bottleneck our supply chain that's really causing a lot of issues and some concern for our produc

it's not the celebration they'd hoped for alan fischer reports. it's not hope it was supposed to be chewed have been a pothole with lots of friends and a celebration of 4 years of high school instead it's graduation marked with a socially distant stance with a family in a driveway. that when we are able to reunite with my friends that have gotten better sleep well away and we're going to get out maybe. maybe is graduation season in america's high schools big celebrations ceremonies and excitement the moment to move on to something new university or a career for the class of 2022 is moments and memories have been stolen away was nobody wants to go to school it sucks it's boring at the end of your senior year you get to do all of these incredible things you've been working towards and you get that. and now i don't get that. clear rodgers moved to the u.s. 2 years ago from the u.k. where they do things differently graduation ceremonies are not common but i've grown up watching that sort of thing maybe it's not like wow i actually get to experience. t

and senate elections in november seats in the house of representatives and senate are decided alan fischer reports from austin texas. before the world changed this was political campaigning in america. neighborhoods knocking on doors canvassing for votes now most of the work is being done on the floor and it's another obstacle to overcome if you're running for office particularly if you're a woman and a mother the reality is people look at you differently they're like i can't tell you how times i've been asked where your kids are evil is running for the u.s. congress in texas one of the growing number of mothers who want to change the face of u.s. politics i think moms are the ones who have really delivered powerful movements in our country and whether it's black lives matter moms demand demand action for gun safety legislation or mad you know mothers against drunk driving it's always been moms who've been pushing this rupert's to save people truly like save people's lives from gun violence police violence from truck drivers and so i think we would have a completely different set of priori

bank says it will issue $160000000000.00 worth of emergency funds to $100.00 developing nations alan fischer the except where the money is coming from and whether those borrowing it will be able to pay it back. across the globe as countries deal with the health impacts of coping $1000.00 but also dealing with the economic impacts the global economy has seized up supply and demand to be the most basic of economic drivers there was a huge economic problem during the financial crash of the 1930 s. but now the global economy is much more complicated interconnected into dependent on stoner are you sure are a semester not by a car you're in your phone's very big at and that's what makes this whole thing sort of a soothing from his headquarters here in washington the international monetary fund has put together a 9 trillion dollar port to help countries deal with the covert crisis most of that money has come from the g 28 the world's richest nations and more than 100 countries have asked for help this is the i.m.f. map of where money has been distributed among those helped $2700000000.00 to egypt $

weeks but those in the food industry say the impacts of dealing with the virus will last months alan fischer al-jazeera falls church virginia. oh germany italy and spain have joined other e.u. states in supporting the suspension of legally required air travel refunds joining this pandemic they've called for airlines to temporarily off a voucher instead of refunds when ships are counseled and lines across europe including lufthansa. have sought state bailouts as lock downs have forced them to ground their fleets i spoke to geoffrey thomas he's the editor in chief of airline ratings dot com he says a lot more needs to be done to assist allan's with their recovery. i think across the globe we've all got to make concessions this is all costing us money but at the same time you know whether we whether we're supporting our local leyline or a fiver daylon or a local restaurant with tyco ice. everybody needs help and the airlines are no different because the airlines are losing hoth of their revenue for 2020 and some of the buy a lot sort of being required across the globe are absolutely massive the

positive as a number of white house staff have shown symptoms and been advised to work from home alan fischer reports as you know we give leeway to the governors as donald trump tries to get the american economy moving again he faces in a break of covert 19 on his own doorstep to white house staffers have tested positive for the virus the concern is the would be the last 3 senior task force figures of no put themselves in quarantine best known and to the phone chief the man most americans trust because of a simple and direct explanations of what's going on the director of the center for disease control robert redfield and the head of the food and drug administration stephen hanna also impacted yeah i know that's right one of president trying to top economists at mit's those in the white house are warning this is a very very scary virus you know that people are going to go back to work and there have been worried about things and it's going to take a while for things to get back to normal absolutely this is a preview of what nearly ahead for many getting back to work. at this building site in

accusation made by former senate aide tara reid threatened to derail his presidential campaign alan fischer reports by it still many to talk about the biden presidential campaign for weeks and it wasn't going away former senate aide tara reid claims she was sexually assaulted when she worked with then senator joe biden and allegations she only made public in the last few weeks an allegation biden could no longer ignore no it is not true i'm saying on a quickly it never never happened and it didn't it never happened i don't remember any type of complaint she may have made it was 27 years ago and i don't remember nor does anyone else that i'm aware of democrats have been pushed to address the allegation in the last few days speaker nancy pelosi who endorsed by this week insisted she has no doubts about the former vice president i have a great comfort level with the situation as i see it with all the respect in the world for any woman who comes forward. republicans accuse democrats of double standard saying they would ignoring the allegation against their presidential hopeful while they piled

about contacts with russia alan fischer reports from washington. during the trump presidential campaign general michael flynn often led the chants of look around far end at the republicans opponent hillary clinton yes that's right. but he faced a very real prospect that would happen to him after he pled guilty of lying to the f.b.i. in recent weeks his new legal team insisted documents had been uncovered which suggested misconduct by f.b.i. investigators now the justice department wants all charges dropped i didn't know that was happening at this moment i felt it was going to happen just by watching and seeing like everybody else does he was an innocent man he is a great gentleman he was targeted by the obama administration and he was targeted in order to try and take down a president and what they've done is a disgrace and i hope a big price is going to be paid a big price should. good friends 24 days as national security adviser is the shortest of a reign in the important government post he resigned when confronted with evidence he lied about his

hong kong after china approved its new security law for the territory all the details now with alan fischer. unusually for a news conference at the white house president only trump opted to use a teleprompter and stuck to the script but in the week where the number of 1000 deaths in the u.s. went through the 100000 mark the president used the occasion to cut ties with the world health organization and returned to calling it virus china has total control over the world health organization we have detailed the reforms that it must make and engage with them directly but they have refused to act. the president has been angry about china's trade practices since before he took office the protests this week in hong kong beatings decision to extend security powers there has added to that anger hong kong has had a special relationship with the u.s. the president wants to punish china and says hong kong special status is no more my announcement today will affect the full range of agreements we have with hong kong from our extradition treaty to our export controls on dual use technologies and more wit

women he'll be hoping by addressing it no it won't continue to be an issue in november election alan fischer al jazeera washington. ok let's get right up to speed with all the main developments so far an experimental antiviral drug has been authorized by the u.s. food and drug administration for emergency use in treating coronavirus patients 1500000 vials of rum disappear will be distributed to hospitals from monday. and we're also fully committed to continue to expand the supply of this medicine and we started investing in this back in january as soon as we came in where the chrono virus this is a long time to manufacture it used to be 12 months it's now 6 months or scientists have brought that down and so as we get into the 2nd half of this year we're able to have many more supplies available to patients and we're fully committed to working with the president with you here ministration to make sure that patients and you can put important new medicines. north korean state media says kin jong un has made his 1st public appearance in almost 3 weeks these images reportedly show him opening a f

regards as strong a man he's praised in the past even for his handling of the coronavirus bric alan fischer al-jazeera at the chinese embassy in washington well germany has blasted trump's announcement saying it will cause unnecessary harm the health minister young spawn tweeted in german as well as french and english so that the disappointing backlash for international health if the w.h.o. should make any difference for the future it needs reform and the e.u. must take a leading role and engage more financially that is one of our priorities for our e.u. presidency on to other news an israeli forces have killed an unarmed palestinian man with special needs in the occupied in occupied east jerusalem police say he was carrying a suspicious object that looks like a pistol it's what they say though no gun was found in the area on friday israeli soldiers killed a palestinian in the occupied west bank. the u.s. has been criticized for ending iran's sanctions waivers which allowed work on nuclear sites designed to prevent weapons being developed france germany and the u.k. have issued a joint stat

west wing at the white house will serve as a reminder this week he still has a long way to go alan fischer al-jazeera washington. michele is a political advisor a conservative commentator and chief executive of the global partners joins me now via skype from washington d.c. good to have you with us on the program again rena a valet a press secretary 3 senior medical advisors to the white house in isolation or quarantined and the president thinks that it's all good what's the message to the people of america that at the moment. well the message is that the white house certainly has no clue what it's doing and i think it's a testament frankly to the fact that the white house has not known what kind of waters it's in and frankly it is uncharted territory so there is a bit. you know leeway the american people have given the president just by virtue of the fact that there's so much i'm known but this this is very clear that the virus has made its way into the house where it was the problem what led to this and it's again very clear that this was something that resulted because of a lack of lead

regards a strong a man he's praised in the past even for his handling of the coronavirus bric alan fischer al-jazeera at the chinese embassy in washington. still ahead on al-jazeera kicked out with nowhere to go why residents of astronomy club is capital they're being evicted in the middle of a pandemic. and breaking the wall of silence what law enforcement officials and us are saying about the actions of the 4 officers involved in georgia the way to end the world. of. hello mainland usa is quite thing down to the time being there are some pretty big showers around you can see the drifting off shore the cloud the stuff here in the northeast is more or less a cult from the temperatures that are on the high side in new york and washington worry not to we're in toronto but that breeze coming of the northwest is temperatures coming down to a reasonable think of this time of the year eventually reach the east coast as well and even see in florida is not particularly share either it's not completely dry either on the pacific coast time has been very high l.a.'s down to 26 phoenix is to 40 street

coming to an end the political fallout of the justice department's decision is only just beginning alan fischer al-jazeera washington forces loyal to the libyan warlord khalifa haftar have shelled central tripoli resulting in explosions near the turkish and the town embassies and a hotel after has been trying to seize the capital for more than a year he also issued a warning to turkey on thursday about its support for the u.n. recognize government which is trying to defeat right up the one head is in tripoli for us and says residents fear more attacks by have to forces. the targeted area which is a very close to the city center it's called zoe demand the word civil diplomatic mission headquarters are located and also a courthouse and a public park 2 police officers were killed along with other civilian a passer by were killed by the explosions caused by. a grad rocket launch it by forces loyal to the warlord. and civil other civilians that one day now the people in the residential areas nearby are still living in a state of panic state of fear they cannot guarantee that more rockets were have t

alan fischer at the chinese embassy in washington still ahead on al-jazeera russia's eyeing an expansion of military bases in syria we'll take a look at what it means for the conflict. kicked out was nowhere to go why residents of a slum in colombia's capital fear being a victim in the middle of a pandemic. hello the winds are picking up again as a bit of a northerly run down the gulf and more especially this is a potential development area it's not quite yet a tropical depression or tropical cyclone but we think it will make that and come on shore just about which means as a wet weekend to come it last beyond into sunday and monday as well but beyond that it's a very dry picture of course struck the arabian peninsula van't iran and beyond that temps of course rising 44 in baghdad 41 in doha that's been a humid picture from the gulf states the breeze increasing before pretty we do see fitty if not the temperature anything up to half a meter of rain could come out of this tropical depression as it comes into southern amman and yemen but as precise details are still not available want to w

and don't create new problems alan fischer al-jazeera effects katie virginia libya's internationally recognized government in tripoli is trying to capture a critical air base controlled by war khalifa haftar. forces to launch airstrikes in the capital in recent weeks the tripoli government has captured several cities along the western coastline of also rejected call for a ceasefire during the holy month of ramadan carrying could use it to recruit a u.n. report says more people were displaced by conflict in syria last year than anywhere else in the world nearly a 1000000 people thought a government offensive and that sent a cease fire and march tens of thousands have returned to their homes and many have found them destroyed or barred manly reports. celebrating the holy month of ramadan in the. dark and his family finances from dusk until dawn now they are breaking that fast in what was once their home. a splash of color in a sea of crushed concrete. says he fled his home marry her the end of the year when the syrian army and the russians bombed this area. now my family and die a hero

regards a strong a man he's praised in the past even for his handling of the coronavirus brick alan fischer al-jazeera at the chinese embassy in washington to figure pollen is in hong kong to sustain a as likely true retaliate at the u.s. imposes sanctions. use came in overnight in this part of the world but many were already anticipating it with mike one payer earlier announcing that hong kong could no longer be autonomy's from trying out once this new law comes into place and so prior to that yesterday we heard the hong kong government official who was at that big political meeting in china say whatever the u.s. does will not affect the enact meant of this law in hong kong also the chinese foreign ministry spokesman said before the end of yesterday that the u.s. should stay out of china's domestic affairs but what we could likely see reaction to is the measures that donald trump had announced saying that there will be travel bans on certain chinese officials and sanctions could be placed on any hong kong or mainland chinese government official seen as eroding hong kong's autonomy what we

in response to a new security law alan fischer reports. unusually for a news conference at the white house president only trump opted to use a teleprompter and stuck to the script but in the week where the number of 1000 deaths in the u.s. went through the 100000 mark the president used the occasion to cut ties with the world health organization and returned to calling it the ruhani virus china has total control over the world health organization we have detailed the reforms that it must make and engage with them directly but they have refused to act. the president has been angry about china's trade practices since before he took office the protests this week in hong kong o.b. zhang's decision to extend security powers there has added to that anger hong kong has had a special relationship with the u.s. but the president wants to punish china and says hong kong special status is no more my announcement today will affect the full range of agreements we have with hong kong from our extradition treaty to our export controls on dual use technol

about contacts with russia alan fischer reports from washington. during the trump presidential campaign general michael flynn often with the chance of look around are aimed at the republicans opponent hillary clinton. faced a very real prospect that would happen to him after he pled guilty of lying to the f.b.i. in recent weeks his new legal team insisted documents had been uncovered which suggested misconduct by f.b.i. investigators know the justice department wants all charges dropped i didn't know that was happening at this moment i felt it was going to happen just by watching and seeing like everybody else he was an innocent man he is a great gentleman he was targeted by the obama administration and he was targeted in order to trying to take down a president and what they've done is a disgrace and i hope a big price is going to be paid a big price should be paid 24 days as national security adviser is the shortest ever read in the important government post he resigned when confronted with evidence he lied about his contacts with the russian amb

on election ballots comes fewer than 6 months before the house and senate elections in november alan fischerreports from austin texas. before the world changed this was political campaigning in america. neighborhoods knocking on doors canvassing for votes now most of the work is being done on the floor and it's another obstacle to overcome if you're running for office particularly if you're a woman and a mother the reality is people look at you differently they're like i can't tell you the times i've been asked where your kids are. running for the u.s. congress in texas one of the growing number of mothers who want to change the face of u.s. politics i think moms are the ones who have really delivered powerful movements in our country and whether it's black lives matter moms demand demand action for gun safety legislation or mad you know mothers against drunk driving it's always been moms who've been pushing these movements to save people truly like save people's lives from gun violence police violence from truck drivers and so i think we would have a completely different set of priorities i

that's collected trillions of dollars from donors alan fischer looks at where the money is coming from and whether the borrowing countries will have the ability to repay it. across the globe as countries deal with the health impacts of coping $1000.00 but also dealing with the economic impacts the global economy has seized up supply and demand to be the most basic of economic drivers there was a huge economic problem during the financial crash of the 1930 s. but now the global economy is much more complicated interconnected into dependent on stoner are you sure are yes mr narayana car you're wonderful i'm sorry but that and that's what makes this whole thing sort of a soothing from his headquarters here in washington the international monetary fund has put together a 9 trillion dollar port to help countries deal with the covert crisis most of that money has come from the g 28 the world's richest nations and more than 100 countries have asked for help this is the i.m.f. map of where money has been distributed among those helped 2 point $7000000000.00 to egypt $411000000.00 to ethiopia $

night when they'll finally be in a position to do that alan fischer washington much more on everything that we have been covering on the our website including of course the impact of the coronavirus right across the globe you can see our top story there 5 right protests in spain over a lockdown and then just a few minutes please stay with us because i bring you more of the day's news including the fact that brazil is now the 2nd worst country in the world stay with us. to mad that it was high there could be dizzy and i mean what. bad asthma caught on the other end. of a model. mother caught on that can and not all of them the most are that on bubba bob. and what can the method of having an asthma like man and the mental cool. jim acosta brazil's health of economic crisis made worse by its president no longer recession proof more than 1000000 health care jobs have been lost to the u.s. at an angle of about 500000000000 euro plan to save the european. culture the cost on al-jazeera. what impact will. the race to the. story. job only takes to beat. special couple. just. the story of black

weeks but those in the food industry say the impacts of dealing with the virus will last months alan fischer al-jazeera falls church virginia. a 3rd province in yemen has recorded its 1st case of over 1000 taking the nationwide number of confirmed infections to 10 the governor ties province says he's closing the borders for 2 weeks with the exception of food and other essential goods he also ordered mosques and markets to close and ban large gatherings on thursday recorded its 1st truth that sparking fears of a major outbreak the u.n. says it's likely the virus is spreading undetected in a country battered by 5 years of war where millions are facing starvation. coming up on the news hour in a moment keeping indonesia fed means delivery drivers are risking infection we need some of the essential workers who can't afford to stop north korea's leader resurfaces state media broadcast images of kim jong il and after weeks of speculation about his health. but 1st more than 40 people have been killed during a prison riot in venezuela the military says it farted a group of armed as they tried to bre

in politics of voice we will not be pushed to the side but 1st it wants to give them a chance alan fischer austin texas. thanks for watching the news hour al-jazeera back in just a moment with much more after days as. the end. save humanity by really really not getting. isolating times the listening post cuts through the noise leave the looking at another side of this story not some of the information around the outbreak but the misinformation separating propaganda from fact look it's reality and you have to leave along exposing the old ticks try it for manipulating rhetoric and shit but they cannot manipulate the fire to the listening post your it's like going to the media on al-jazeera. the good out of 5 paying the price for his political maneuvering never now desperate for american recognition and absolutely denounce. goodies how did the p.l.o. find strength and support from their only lifeline oppressed palestinians living in the occupied territories chronicling the turbulent story of the struggle for a palestinian homeland p.l.o. history of a revolution on al-jazeera. al-jazeera . wel

and women in politics a voice we will not be pushed aside but 1st it wants to give them a chance alan fischer austin texas. well now it's time for the weather and jenny it seems like it's winter all over again in the u.s. it really is my goodness what a blast of wind so yeah let me show you 1st of all the a little fun to say the satellite is really show you a lot because you can see this cloud work its way across the northeast it doesn't look particularly threatening and really hasn't been but the and has been so cold has been coming down from the north pole quite literally and look at this into vermont 23 centimeters of snow come down this was literally on saturday and just look at it and look at this and i have to say what aptly named place chile a 5th new york state these very hardy gophers out on the golf course despite the fact damages are not much of a freezing and as there was snow in the area now look at this the new york city this is actually central park because it's been snow as far inland if you like in the city as some cool pa the last time it snowed this late in the year was 43

accusation made by former senate aide terror reid threaten to derail his presidential campaign alan fischer reports. it still many to talk about the biting presidential campaign for weeks and it wasn't going away the former senate aide tara reid claimed she was sexually assaulted when she what with then senator joe biden and allegations she only made public in the last few weeks and the allegation biden could no longer ignore no it is not true i'm saying on a quickly it never never happened who didn't never happened i don't remember any type of complaint she may have made it was 27 years ago and i don't remember nor does anyone else that i'm aware of democrats have been pushed to address the allegation in the last few days speaker nancy pelosi who endorsed by this week insisted she has no doubts about the former vice president i have great comfort level with the situation as i see it with all the respect in the world for any woman who comes forward. republicans accuse democrats of double standard saying they were ignoring the allegation against their presidential hopeful while they piled on

regards a strong a man he's praised in the past even for his handling of the coronavirus brick alan fischer al-jazeera at the chinese embassy in washington. difficult pollen as in hong kong she says donald trump's announcement on ending preferential treatment for the territory could be disastrous for its economy. hong kong and mainland chinese officials say any u.s. action will not derail their meant of the national security law but the u.s. says once the laws in place hong kong is no longer sufficiently autonomy's from mainland china which means they can take away the special status which includes policies on trade travel and extradition and analysts say it will be a huge blow to hong kong standing as an international financial center we don't really know what the national security law is going to say and how much will be left in hong kong we don't really know what president trump is going to do you know is he going to be false agents or is it going to be limitations on the margin i think what we do know is that this is the end of an era where hong kong has really been seen as very much an

more than 80000 people have now died from covert 19 in the worst affected country in the world alan fischer has more from washington d.c. with 2 white house staff testing positive for corona virus with senior members of his task force self isolating the president put on a bill is displayed in the rose garden of the white house we have met the moment and we have prevailed americans do whatever it takes to find solutions pioneer breakthroughs and harness the energies we need to achieve a total victory we will defeat this horrible enemy we will revive our economy and we will transition into great this. that's a phrase you're going to hear a lot because that's what's going to happen asked if he was declaring mission accomplished the president clarified he was talking about testing claiming the u.s. had no tested more people than any other country the white house has also told staff to wear masks while in and around the building a dramatic shift in policy senior figures attending the briefing did so the president did not in new york the governor insisted the state was through the wash the divide

alan fischer al-jazeera at the chinese embassy in washington. germany has blasted donald trump's announcement saying it will cause unnecessary harm the health minister john spahn tweeted in german french and english that's the disappointing backlash for international health if that world health organization will make any difference for the future it needs reform and the e.u. must take a leading role ending gauge more financially that's one of our priorities for our presidency to go pollens in hong kong she says trump's announcement on ending preferential treatment for the territory could be disastrous for the economy there . about half of all the investments that go into china are come out of china go through hong kong that means billions and billions of dollars passed through hong kong really helping hong kong's economy get going get the wheels turning on its economy also many businesses also rely on this kind of capital so yes this is going to have a huge impact on hong kong's economy in fact hong kong's finance minister has said they are alre

way swing at the white house will serve as a reminder of this week he still has a long way to go alan fischer al-jazeera washington. truck drivers in canada have been working overtime to keep supplies flowing across the country but with many people stuck at home those in the freight industry a facing the own unique challenges as david bussau reports from calgary the crucial efforts going on those just. outside his shop in calgary chris standing prepares to pick up a load of dry past his routine is changed more in the past few months then during his 25 years in the trucking industry and with the coronavirus still spreading across canada chris wants to keep his family and his clients safe we set up a company policy to make sure that that we're wiping down 3 times a day in the truck and we're sterilizing her hand every time we get in and out of the truck whether it's going into a client or just picking up a load in the pandemics early days says hauling goods was a bit like driving into a freak storm a little scary and a little exciting at the same time he feels safer now as most businesses have